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"As Starving Somalis Flood into Ethiopia, UN Sends in Emergency Aid Team." //Welcome to the United Nations: It's Your World//. UN News Service, 23 Aug. 2011. Web. 04 Oct. 2011. .

__**15 Facts:**__
 * 1) A group of Somali women and children wait to be registered at the transit centre in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia
 * 2) 23 August 2011 – The United Nations has deployed an emergency team to south-eastern Ethiopia
 * 18,000 new refugees fleeing drought, famine and conflict in Somalia have recently poured in, compounding a situation already fraught with high mortality from malnutrition and measles.
 * 1) “A priority for us remains the need to save lives among this badly weakened population,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Adrian Edwards
 * 2) where more than 12 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and particularly Somalia are in urgent need of help and tens of thousands, many of them children, have already starved to death.
 * 3) “Ensuring that new arrivals get food, water and medical attention is critically important,” he said, noting that the UNHCR emergency team had been sent to the Gode area, 250 kilometres north of the refugee camps already been set up in Dollo Ado.
 * 4) 140,000 of them “facing imminent death” from severe acute malnutrition.
 * 5) UNHCR will airlift aid for up to 20,000 people in Gode from its stocks in Dubai
 * 6) blankets, plastic sheeting, jerry cans, kitchen sets, sleeping mats, buckets and mosquito nets.
 * 7) Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with field presences in the area are already helping with health needs, nutrition and water, and UNHCR will provide additional support where necessary.
 * 8) Mr. Edwards voiced continuing concern at the persistently high mortality rate at the 25,000-strong Kobe camp in Dollo Ado, where a major cause of death is suspected measles, compounded by the high prevalence of acute malnutrition and poor hygiene practices.
 * 9) A mass immunization campaign was conducted last week for children between the ages of six months and 15 years, but it will take 10 to 14 days for the vaccine to be effective and for the mortality rates to become lower.
 * 10) Together with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UNHCR has just completed a second mass anti-measles campaign in the Melkadida camp.
 * 11) Polio vaccination and screening for malnutrition were carried out at the same time for children.
 * 12) In Somalia, shelter materials and other aid items continue to be distributed in Mogadishu, the capital, and southern areas, but these still fall short of the many needs in makeshift settlements in southern and central Somalia that accommodate many of the country’s estimated 1.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs).