ROME: The United Nations has approved an emergency loan of $22 million in a bid to prevent another famine in drought and crisis-hit Somalia, its food agency said Tuesday.

The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is releasing the funds to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the hope it will help stave off catastrophe in the civil-war wracked country, just five years after the last famine.

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