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  1. Women in Dhobley, Somalia, redeem World Concern vouchers for food from local merchants. ALERTNET/World Concern staff

    Using food vouchers to save lives in Somalia

    02 May 2012 09:00 BST | Comments (1)

    World Concern | Solutions for a hungry world

    Food vouchers or cash transfer systems help hungry Somalis

  2. This June 2009 photo shows Somali refugees bringing their infants for supplemental food distribution at a clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province.. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

    Somalia talks should include dialogue with rebels, say experts

    21 February 2012 19:43 GMT | Comments (0)

    Katy Migiro | AlertNet News Blog

    London Somalia Conference on Feb. 23 to address security, politics, humanitarian crisis and more

  3. A Somali woman with her child walks to collect food ration at village near the Indian Ocean coastline in Burgabo, south of Kismayu in Somalia December 14, 2011. REUTERS/Noor Khamis

    UK conference aims to tackle causes of Somalia troubles

    23 January 2012 16:15 GMT | Comments (5)

    Matt Baugh | The Debating Chamber

    After years of sliding backwards, it’s clear that Somalia needs a step-change in effort writes Matt Baugh of the UK FCO

  4. Famine-stricken internally displaced people wait to receive relief food from members of al Shabaab at Ala Yaasir camp 04/09/2011 REUTERS/Feisal Omar

    Corruption and the food crisis in the Horn of Africa

    31 October 2011 17:39 GMT | Comments (0)

    aleksandr-shkolnikov | Anti-Corruption Views

    You can’t prevent droughts, but you can improve governance and be prepared to deal with them when they occur

  5. An internally displaced boy walks through a gate riddled with bullet holes from a war-ravaged compound in Hamarweyne district of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, September 6, 2011. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

    What western eyes fail to see as the real Somalia

    21 September 2011 15:22 BST | Comments (2)

    Randolph Kent | The Debating Chamber

    The resources of a community already under stress could be better used, writes Randolph Kent of the Humanitarian Futures ...

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