The Atlantic Wire - The rest of the world, perhaps, has been a little late to the game in addressing the famine in the Horn of Africa, which is plaguing nations such as Somalia, Ethiopia, and the newly-formed South Sudan on the eastern part of the continent. It took until early to mid-July for United Nations officials to determine that the situation met the conditions its complex definition of a famine. Meanwhile, relief organizations have had trouble raising awareness of the famine with the media focused instead on the U.S. debt ceiling debacle domestically and Norway shootings and U.K. hacking scandal abroad.
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