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Over one million people face food shortages

    NAIROBI

    The Food Security and Assessment Unit (FSAU) and WFP estimated last week that more than one million people in Somalia were vulnerable to food shortages if this year's 'Gu' harvest failed, including 730,000 in Bay, Bakool and Gedo; 83,000 in Hiran; 193,000 in Lower Shabelle; and 160,000 in Lower Juba. These figures did not include displaced communities, which total some 300,000 people, including those in Mogadishu, according to a UN report received by IRIN. An additional problem had been the steady devaluation of the Somali shilling against the US dollar, which increased the cost of imported foods, it added.

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