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The couple gave the money through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation to the Humanitarian Initiative Just Relief Aid, which helps care for mothers who have been displaced from the war-torn nation.

Mohamed Dahir from the organization said the money would allow for an expansion of the Badbaado camp in Mogadishu – the capital city of Somalia – which takes in around 300 women and children every day.

Around 29,000 children under the age of five are thought to have died due to drought and famine in the country, and the United Nations claims 750,000 people are at risk of starving to death in the next few months.

Angelina – who raises six children, Maddox, 10, Pax, seven, Zahara, six, Shiloh, five, and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne with ‘Moneyball’ star Brad – recently thanked Somali refugees for helping to inspire her and make her a better parent.

She said: “I’m so grateful – I don’t want to cry – to the refugee families that I have the honour and privilege to spend the last years with.

“From them I’ve learned so much. I’ve learned to be a better person, a better mother. They’ve inspired me by showing me the unbreakable strength of the human spirit.”

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have moved into a house in what is becoming known as ‘Hollywood-on-Thames’ in the Richmond area of London. Angelina Jolie and Pitt have moved in just round the corner from Sandra Bullock, and the leafy suburb of London has just seen George Clooney move out. The typical rent is over $30,000 a month, and is used by a-list actors and actresses who need discreet access to London’s famous Shepperton Studios. Other top film stars that have rented there are Pirates of the Carribean star Johnny Depp and celebrity couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-jones.

Meanwhile, Jolie has been honoured at the Sarajevo Film Festival, reports the BBC, for her acting and “active engagement in the complexities of the real world”. Jolie makes her directorial debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey – a film that is set during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, which is out in December 2011. She received a standing ovation as she picked up the honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award, and said: “I told Brad in the car I was afraid I was going to cry.” She has visted Bosnia several times as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations.

Brangelina, the Hollywood couple of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, have donated $2 million to a Namibian sanctuary after spending Christmas there, reports the Press Association. Staff said that during the vacation, Pitt and Jolie’s children helped to feed and care for the orphaned baby baboons and foxes.

The substantial donation to the ‘Naankuse Lodge and Wildlife Sanctuary’ was made through the ‘Jolie-Pitt Foundation’ in the name of their daughter Shiloh, who was born in Namibia. In a statement, the 35-year-old actress said that the owners of the sanctuary were old friends of hers and added, “We want her to be very involved and grow up with the understanding of her country of birth. We continue to be impressed by their hard work and dedication to the people and conservation of the land and wildlife of Namibia”. The couple founded their charitable organisation back in 2006 and made initial $1 million donations to ‘Global Action for Children’, and ‘Doctors Without Borders’.

During their festive stay at the lodge, the Hollywood stars and their children were said to have witnessed a leopard being released back into the wild.