NAIROBI: Three years after famine in Somalia killed a quarter of a million people in six months, aid agencies warned on Sunday a new catastrophe is looming unless urgent aid arrives.

A joint statement issued by a group of charities and aid agencies said there were more than 300,000 malnourished children in the east African country and 2.9 million people in need of life-saving help.

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