Niger's Anguish Is Reflected in Its Dying Children. Michael Wines.
by Wines, Michael; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 78Global Issues. Publisher: New York Times, 2005ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Doctors without Borders (Organization) | Famines -- Africa | Food relief -- Africa | Humanitarian assistance -- Africa | Malnutrition in children | Niger -- Social conditions | World Food ProgrammeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "At sunset Wednesday [August 3, 2005], in an unmarked grave in a cemetery rimmed by millet fields, the men of this mud-walled village buried Baby Boy Saminou, the latest casualty of the hunger ravaging 3.6 million farmers and herders in this destitute nation....As aid begins to trickle into some of the nearly 4,000 villages across southern Niger that need help...the rich world's response to Niger's worst nutrition crisis since the 1985 famine is, in fact, proving too late for many." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article discusses the emergency situation in Niger where "one in five is dying--the result, many say, of a belated response by the outside world to a disaster predicted in detail nine months ago."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Niger's Anguish Is Reflected in Its Dying Children, Aug. 5, 2005; pp. A1+.
"At sunset Wednesday [August 3, 2005], in an unmarked grave in a cemetery rimmed by millet fields, the men of this mud-walled village buried Baby Boy Saminou, the latest casualty of the hunger ravaging 3.6 million farmers and herders in this destitute nation....As aid begins to trickle into some of the nearly 4,000 villages across southern Niger that need help...the rich world's response to Niger's worst nutrition crisis since the 1985 famine is, in fact, proving too late for many." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article discusses the emergency situation in Niger where "one in five is dying--the result, many say, of a belated response by the outside world to a disaster predicted in detail nine months ago."
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