He told The Associated Press that countries in the Horn of Africa have faced “unprecedented climate impact” from years of drought, and the U.N. agency had been expecting to announce famine in Somalia before donors “stepped up in magnificent ways.”
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he said that when he assumed his role in 2017, only 80 million people around the world were headed toward starvation.
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