An additional $700 million, plus greater access for aid workers, is needed in order to save more of the 750,000 lives under threat in drought- and famine-stricken East Africa, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told member states on Saturday. That day, the World Bank announced it would increase aid to countries in the area to $1.88 billion -- almost four times the amount originally pledged last summer -- through 2014.

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