Somalia: UN’s top humanitarian forum warns of ‘tipping point’ as famine risk rises

Somalia is at a “tipping point”, with hundreds of thousands of people at immediate risk of famine, the heads of the UN’s highest-level humanitarian coordination forum have warned.

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