Yet another crisis of increasingly epic proportions is happening with scant attention from much of the world. Apparently, the Bush Administration focused plenty on Niger when they saw forged documents as a way to justify their invasion if Iraq. Now, when millions in Niger face starvation, where is their attention?
The aid agency Oxfam warned last week that about 3.6 million people, about a third of them children, face starvation in this West African nation devastated by locusts and drought. The U.N.'s humanitarian agency estimates some 800,000 children under 5 are suffering from hunger, including 150,000 faced with severe malnutrition.
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