Azerbaijan provided financial aid to four countries facing famine threat, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a message.

Through Azerbaijan International Development Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the financial aid in the amount of $50,000 was provided via the United Nations for the people in Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and north-eastern Nigeria stricken by famine threat as the result of humanitarian crisis, reads the message.

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