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In drought-stricken Somaliland, families try to survive on black tea

Two million people in the breakaway Horn of Africa republic -- about half its population -- face starvation after an acute drought killed their livestock

By George Obulutsa and Abdirahman Hussein

BURAO, Somalia, March 28 (Reuters) - In a makeshift camp beside a disused airfield in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland, 32-year old Nima Mohamed sits next to an open wood fire, boiling a kettle of black tea.

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