Food crisis
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Story:
Scenes like this in Samburu district, Kenya, are shocking and heartbreaking. Families are going without food for days in the area which is semi arid and where majority of the local communities are pastoralists.
According to World Food Programme report, the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme urged G8 development Ministers to remember the needs of the world’s hungriest people.
The statement said that one in six people going hungry, one child dying every six seconds, and 80 percent of sub saharan African countries facing higher food prices than a year ago, the poor and the hungry are facing one of the biggest crises in our lifetimes.
Contributor: JOE_MWANGI
Date: 16 June 2009 - 11:00pm
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