US inflation hits new three-year high amid energy price surge
Trump appeared to embrace the data saying, ‘I love the inflation’, and that prices will drop once the Iran war is over.
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A newly displaced Somali woman holds her malnourished baby at a stabilisation centre for children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Kismayo. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Somalia ranks among the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change. [Simon Maina/AFP]
A woman builds her family hut in an IDP camp on the outskirts of Kismayo. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Displaced Somali people collect water from a well inside an IDP camp. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Farmers, whose herds and crops have been decimated, describe one of the worst droughts ever recorded. [Simon Maina/AFP]
More than 200 health centres and 400 schools have closed since last year. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Several international organisations have stopped operations in the camps on the outskirts of Kismayo. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Displaced Somali people sit under the shade of a tree as they wait for medical attention at an IDP camp on the outskirts of Kismayo. [Simon Maina/AFP]
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