Report: 3.6m face Niger starvation
Thursday, July 21, 2005; Posted: 5:34 a.m. EDT (09:34 GMT)
Manage Alerts | What Is This? LONDON, England (AP) -- About 3.6 million people face starvation in the West African nation of Niger unless the international community responds urgently to the food crisis there, the aid agency Oxfam said Thursday.
Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, was devastated by an invasion of locusts that ate everything green last year and was then hit by drought that lasted until earlier this month.
A child suffering from severe malnutrition is treated at a Medecins Sans Frontieres center.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa....ap/index.html
Damn, I wish I had a wife that worked in the CIA so I could go there.
