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Alarming malnutrition rates reported in Ethiopia's Gedeo region
Tens of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in southern Ethiopia are affected
Medical charity MSF has raised the alarm over malnutrition rates amongst tens of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) in southern Ethiopia.
Also, South Sudan offers to mediate in the politics of neighbouring Sudan.
And a twenty-million-year-old 'Giant lion' fossil is found in a Kenyan museum drawer.
(Photo: Ethiopian family in Kebridhar affected by famine. Credit: Getty Images)
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