High global food prices have pushed the country even closer to the brink of famine by exacerbating the devastating effects of violence, displacement and chaos. The United Nations has declared a wide swath of central Somalia a humanitarian emergency, the final stage before a full-blown famine.
Guest: Christian Balslev-Olesen, head of UNICEF operations in Somalia, speaking to us from Nairobi, Kenya
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