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Published August 08, 2011, 12:00 AM

Jill Biden in Kenya


In this photograph taken during an official White House organized visit, Jill Biden, wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, sits with Somali refugees during a photo opportunity at a UNHCR screening center on the outskirts of Ifo camp outside Dadaab, eastern Kenya, 100 kms (60 miles) from the Somali border, Monday Aug. 8, 2011. Jill Biden on Monday is visiting the world's largest refugee camp, Dadaab, where tens of thousands of Somali famine refugees have arrived in recent weeks. The U.S. says that more than 29,000 Somali children under the age of 5 have died from the famine in the last three months. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Read the article: 'Hundreds of thousands of kids could die' from East Africa's famine, U.S. official says