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03/08/2006:

"World warned it must do better as 20m face threat of famine in Africa"

More than 20 million people in the Horn of Africa are at risk of famine in conditions which the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) described yesterday as the worst in his experience.

James Morris, executive director of the WFP, the UN's food aid organisation, was in London yesterday to warn the international community that millions of people in Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Tanzania are now at risk because of drought.
guardian.co.uk


We cannot tolerate children dying for a glass of water
Nobody reading this started the day with a two-mile hike to collect the family's daily water supply from a stream. None of us will suffer the indignity of using a plastic bag for a toilet. And our children don't die for want of a glass of clean water.

Aw I don't know...look what we tolerate already.