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April 15, 2003
Hunger in Southern Africa
The World Food Programme is asking for donations of US$120 million to maintain its emergency food aid in southern Africa, where 15 million people are at risk of starvation, due to a drought, farm workers dying en masse of AIDS, and Robert Mugabe's senseless policies.
It sounds like a lot, but it's less than 0.2 percent of what was spent to wage the war in Iraq.
Posted by Tyrone at April 15, 2003 07:10 PM