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Millions Of People In African Sahel Need Food Assistance, U.N. Agencies Say
"Millions of people in Africa's Sahel region need urgent help to cope with food shortages brought on by erratic rainfall and drought, and at least one million children in the area face malnutrition next year, U.N. agencies warned," AlertNet reports. "The World Food Programme (WFP), which called for a new type of response to climate-related crises, estimates that between five and seven million people in the semi-arid zone just south of the Sahara need assistance now," and it "said the situation would worsen if nothing was done to help the countries in need -- as more people are expected to run out of food supplies by February and March next year," the news service writes (Fominyen, 12/9).
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