The 2011 Famine in Somalia: Lessons learnt from a failed response?

Conflict and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Seal, Andrew ^a   Bailey, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster approach; Early warning systems; Famine; Humanitarian action; Political context; Somalia; War on terror

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886482111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1505-7-22     Document Type: Article

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