50 Cent visits famine victims in Somalia, Kenya
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In this photo released by the World Food Programme (WFP), rapper Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, center, visits children in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The rap star teamed up with WFP to fly to Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday and Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday and has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry and donate to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink that he is promoting, according to WFP. (AP Photo/World Food Programme, Rose Ogola)
In this photo released by the World Food Programme (WFP), rapper Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, center, visits children in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The rap star teamed up with WFP to fly to Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday and Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday and has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry and donate to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink that he is promoting, according to WFP. (AP Photo/World Food Programme, Rose Ogola)
In this photo released by the World Food Programme (WFP), rapper Curtis 50 Cent?Jackson, center, visits children in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The rap star teamed up with WFP to fly to Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday and Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday and has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry and donate to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink that he is promoting, according to WFP. (AP Photo/World Food Programme, Rose Ogola)
In this photo released by the World Food Programme (WFP), rapper Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, center, visits children in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The rap star teamed up with WFP to fly to Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday and Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday and has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry and donate to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink that he is promoting, according to WFP. (AP Photo/World Food Programme, Rose Ogola)
In this photo released by the World Food Programme (WFP), rapper Curtis 50 Cent? Jackson, center, visits children in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The rap star teamed up with WFP to fly to Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday and Nairobi, Kenya on Thursday and has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry and donate to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink that he is promoting, according to WFP. (AP Photo/World Food Programme, Rose Ogola)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 and released Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 by the World Food Programme (WFP), rapper Curtis 50 Cent Jackson talks with primary school children in the town of Dolo, Somalia. The rap star teamed up with WFP to fly to Dolo, Somalia on Wednesday where tens of thousands of women and children have fled over the last year to escape a devastating famine, and has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry and donate to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink that he is promoting, according to WFP. (AP Photo/World Food Programme, Challiss McDonough)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? Rapper 50 Cent is teaming up with the World Food Program to see firsthand the effects of hunger in Somalia and Kenya.
The rap star flew to Dolo, Somalia, on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of women and children have fled there over the last year to flee a devastating famine that killed tens of thousands of people across Somalia.
WFP said the rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has committed to provide 1 billion meals for the hungry, and is donating to WFP 10 cents from every sale of a new energy drink called Street King that he is promoting.
The U.N. last week declared an end to Somalia's six-month famine, though it said tens of thousands of people still need food aid to survive. The British government estimates that between 50,000 and 100,000 people died from the famine's effects.
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