As of mid-1999, 1.2 million people were facing serious food shortages in Somalia, with 400,000 on the brink of starvation. With the Ethiopians and the Eritreans using Somalia to try and outflank each other (which they'll probably do down to Antarctica), uncontrolled crop pests, its own messy civil war and no rain for two years, Somalia is on the abyss. Of the total emergency food aid requirements for 1998/1999, only about a quarter-52,000 tons-was delivered. Somalians have been dining on a cuisine of dried leaves, roots and the shells of coffee beans-an entree that might cost 50 bucks at Spago's, but in Somalia is a better bet than Jenny Craig at losing weight real fast. Naturally there are frequent attacks on food convoys by bandits.
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