UN: Somalia famine now 'humanitarian emergency'

The United Nations says Somalia's famine is over, but has warned that continued assistance is needed.

The United Nations says Somalia's famine is over, but has warned that continued assistance is needed.

The world body's Food and Agricultural Organisation moved the crisis from the top step of a five-point scale - based on the death rate - to the fourth step, formally reducing it from a "famine" to a "humanitarian emergency".

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