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Niger: A famine foretold
- Source: Africa Renewal, Volume 19, Issue 3, Oct 2005, p. 3 - 3
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- 31 Oct 2005
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Abstract
The seasonal rains returned to southern Niger in June, coaxing the green millet stalks from the dry earth and signalling an end, hopefully, to a food shortage that has left some 2.4 million Nigeriens — including 800,000 children — vulnerable to malnutrition. International relief workers have also started to arrive to distribute the emergency rations needed until the harvest is in.
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