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FAMINE DEEPENS IN WEST AFRICA
International aid agencies are having to make some heart wrenching choices as the food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa goes from bad to worse. The United Nations World Food Programme is now having to pick and choose who will be fed and who will go hungry. We talk to Robert Fox, the head of Oxfam Canada.
International aid agencies are having to make some heart wrenching choices as the food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa goes from bad to worse. The United Nations World Food Programme is now having to pick and choose who will be fed and who will go hungry. We talk to Robert Fox, the head of Oxfam Canada.
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