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CLEAN : 3-year-old Randa starves as Yemen aid dries up
Crying and struggling to breathe, three-year-old Randa sits on a metal bed in a tent in northwest Yemen's Hajjah province, her weight similar to that of a healthy newborn (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : ECOWAS loans over 6,500 tons of food to Burkina Faso
ECOWAS is lending more than 6,500 tons of food to Burkina Faso for displaced people fleeing jihadist violence, through its regional food security reserve, in partnership with the European Union (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : In Ukraine, war raises spectre of devastating Stalin-era famine
For Maria Goncharova, a 93-year-old survivor of the devastating famine that hit Ukraine in the 1930s, Russia's invasion has awoken fears that the nightmare of starvation could happen again (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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SOUTH KOREA: NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS PRESS CONFERENCE
Eng/Korean/Nat
Two of the families who fled North Korea last week have confirmed that hunger is widespread in the country and that there were rumours its leader Kim Jong Il may start a war with South Korea between July and October.
The...
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Famine victims arriving in Mogadishu seeking help
1. Various of people queuing to receive food
2. Mid of sacks of food aid being handed out
3. Mid of people carrying food aid sacks
4. Various of camp
5. Various of family in tent
6. Wide of women in tent with children
7. Close-up of...
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Top UN official tours hospital looking after famine victims
1. Various of Valerie Amos, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, visiting Banadir Hospital
2. Close-up of mother with two children
3. Various of Amos talking to hospital staff and refugeees
4. SOUNDBITE: (English)...
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ETHIOPIA: DANAN: FAMINE CLAIMS MORE BABIES LIVES
Somali/English/Natsound
Disease and malnutrition caused by the drought in Ethiopia continue to claim victims at a shocking rate.
Three more children were buried in Danan's graveyard on Wednesday - it now counts over 400 tombs.
The...
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CHINA: RED CROSS OFFICIALS FROM NORTH & SOUTH KOREA TALKS CONTINUE
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Red Cross officials from North and South Korea on Thursday started their second day of talks on sending emergency food aid to starving North Koreans.
South Korea has offered its communist rival 50-thousand tonnes...
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Aid groups warn that Southern Sudan may return to war
Juba, southern Sudan
1. Street traffic
2. Pull-out to wide of vehicles and pedestrians
3. Zoom-in traffic and pedestrians, pan of United Nations vehicle turning right
4. Another UN vehicle turns right
5. Vehicles and pedestrian...
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ISRAEL/ETHIOPIA: AID FOR FAMINE STRICKENED ETHIOPIA
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Israel has sent three tons of unleavened crackers to Ethiopia after rabbis ordered that bread be kept out of an aid shipment over the Jewish Passover holiday.
Observant Jews refrain from eating leavened bread during the...
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SOMALIA: SOUTHERN SOMALIA AGAIN WRACKED BY FAMINE
Marka and Qansax Dheere, Somalia, 12-13 December 1998Qansax Dheere1. Wide shot mothers and children waiting outside UNICEF clinic2. Mid shot people entering UNICEF clinic3. Mid shot woman carrying child4. Close-up malnourished child5....
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LIBERIA: LIBERIANS SEEK EMERGENCY FAMINE RELIEF
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Liberians isolated in the countryside for months by rebel fighting are coming out of the bush to get emergency famine relief.
The United Nations and relief agencies delivered tons of food to the rural region north of the...
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A U.S. aid official warned Monday that hundreds of thousands of Somalis could die as famine spreads, amid a visit to Kenyan refugee camps by the wife of Vice President Joe Biden.
HEADLINE: Jill Biden visits East Africa famine refugees
CAPTION: A U.S. aid official warned Monday that hundreds of thousands of Somalis could die as famine spreads, amid a visit to Kenyan refugee camps by the wife of Vice President Joe...
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Sudan/Kenya - Go ahead for aid planes
The World Food Programme has been given the go-ahead by the Sudanese government for an additional three Hercules aircraft to fly desperately needed food aid into southern Sudan. The government had been refusing permission to fly aid to...
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North Korea/China - Latest on famine situation
Relief workers returning from North Korea say the critical food shortage in the isolated nation has eased, but the crisis is far from over and could become worse with the approach of winter.
Kathy Zellwegar, Hong Kong director of...
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Leaders gather to discuss famine situation in Horn of Africa
1. Mid of arrival of Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi
2. Close of Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki''s arrival
3. Wide of South Sudan President, Salva Kiir''s arrival
4. Close up of Ethiopia and Djibouti delegation
5. Wide of Somalia...
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The World Food Program is sending nearly 900 tons of high energy biscuits to East Africa to help fight the famine in Somalia.
HEADLINE: Food aid to Africa increases as famine worsens
CAPTION: The World Food Program is sending nearly 900 tons of high energy biscuits to East Africa to help fight the famine in Somalia. (Aug. 9)
AS MANY AS 15-HUNDRED REFUGEES A DAY...
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4:3 Army claims Al Shabab positions after "tactical withdrawal"
1. Pan of Somali troops near barricade in Mogadishu street, left by the al-Shabab militant group when they vacated the area
2. Troops patrolling deserted road, trench visible by the side of road
3. Various of troops in the area
4. Man...
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USA: ST PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATIONS EMPHASISE IRISH POTATO FAMINE
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St Patrick's Day is being celebrated in America, Monday, with a special emphasis on the 150th anniversary of the Irish Potato Famine.
In New York, people celebrating the saint's day observed a moment of silence in memory of...
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4:3 Drought victims face more misery from torrential rain
1. Zoom in of famine displaced people walking in the rain and mud
2. Various of displaced around their makeshift tents in the rain
3. Close of women sheltered from the rain
4. Mid of woman dressed in white holding child walking towards...
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Officials inspect scale of humanitarian crisis
Dolo, Somalia - 24 July 2011
1. Various of internally displaced residents waiting for food rations
2. Establishing shot of European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva
3....
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Zaire - Half starved and wounded refugees
Aid workers in Zaire evacuated a transit camp near Kisangani on
Friday (02/05) that had been packed with refugees straggling in
from the jungle where they had hidden in fear of rebel troops.
UN and agency aid workers have been caring for...
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US VP''s wife Jill Biden in E. Africa to visit famine refugees
1. Plane carrying Jill Biden, wife of US Vice President, Joe Biden landing at Dadaab airstrip
2. Wide shot of Biden walking on tarmac at Dadaab airstrip
3. Mid shot of Biden greeting journalists
4. Wide shot of Biden at a feeding...
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Thousands of Somalis face starvation as British PM hosts hunger summit
A group of Olympic athletes from around the world has backed a campaign organised by British Prime Minister David Cameron against child malnutrition in vulnerable countries such as Somalia.
One year after up to 100-thousand Somalis died...