Famine children dying on East Africa "roads of death"

ROME (Reuters) - Emergency food centers in drought-stricken eastern Africa are overwhelmed by thousands of starving people every day and mothers are forced to abandon their dead or dying children by the roadside, aid officials said on Monday. Josette Sheeran , executive director of the United ...

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