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Al-Shabab Spokesman Says There’s No Famine In Somalia | The United Nations has declared a famine in numerous zones in Somalia, but al-Shabab, the al Qaeda-linked terror organization ruling parts of the impoverished country, is preventing aid workers from delivering much needed food and supplies. The U.K.’s Channel 4 news reports that “in the first interview with a western news organisation since the UN declared famine in Somalia,” an al-Shabab spokesman said there is no famine in Somalia. Watch Channel 4′s report from inside Somalia (warning: some graphic images):
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