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Strife of civil war is obscuring the extent of Somalia's 'hidden famine'

People are starving but aid workers cannot get through to them because of spiralling violence From Steve Bloomfield in Nairobi

THE Horn of Africa is in the grip of a devastating food crisis that has left up to 15 million people across the region in need of emergency food aid.