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U.N. Meeting Delegates Urge International Community To Respond Thoroughly, Rapidly To Drought-Stricken Sahel
"Delegates at a meeting convened by the United Nations to draw up strategies to respond to the humanitarian crisis in West Africa's drought-prone Sahel region [on Wednesday] called for comprehensive and rapid assistance to the millions of people affected, especially children and women," the U.N. News Centre reports (2/15). "Heads of U.N. agencies and representatives from governments, the African Union and the Economic Community Of West African States met in Rome to discuss a joint response to the situation in the region," the Guardian notes (Ford, 2/15). "U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization director Jose Graziano da Silva warned there is 'little time to act,'" according to VOA's "Breaking News" blog (2/15).
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