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NAIROBI, Kenya — The number of famine zones in Somalia was cut in half Friday as U.S. and U.N. food agencies said that aid had reduced death rates. That good news was tempered by warnings that a quarter- million Somalis face imminent starvation and that battles are preventing food deliveries.
The U.S. and U.N. food agencies downgraded the famine rating in three areas of Somalia to emergency status but said three other areas — including the refugee communities of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu — remain in the famine zone.
