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    UN calls for more help in W. Africa hunger crisis

    NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Top United Nations officials say 10 million people need help amid a food crisis in West Africa's Sahel region.

    U.N. Development and Humanitarian chiefs Helen Clark and Valerie Amos called Saturday for greater humanitarian response to the crisis that effects eight countries, including Niger.

    During a visit, they commended Niger's government for its agricultural projects that are building more resilience to nutrition crises.

    The U.N. has previously said that more than 1 million children in the affected countries are expected to face life-threatening malnutrition this year. The region has not yet recovered from the last drought two years ago, and many families lost their herds which means that they will not have assets to purchase food.

     

    26 comments

    • James  •  Bowling Green, Kentucky  •  3 mths ago
      Let China and Russia handle it this time.
      • casey Stott 3 mths ago
        China and Russia dont give free stuff away unless its firearms and missiles.
    • Bud  •  Indianapolis, Indiana  •  3 mths ago
      I'm sorry if this offends some people, but it's high time that all those african nations learn to take care of themselves! Perhaps if the general adult population of these countries were to parctice birth control there wouldn't be a need for the world to support them! At least the animals of Africa have enough sense to not breed when times of draught and shortage of food cannot support an increase of their species, quite unlike the "human" population. The UN should be disbanded and the representatives and all their staff sent back to their respective countries. The building should be razed and a memorial erected on the site to remind the USA to never get involved in something like this corrupt organization ever again!
    • Tony  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Feed them keep them healthy, so they can breed and you have the same problem year after year. Maybe if we weren't so fast to supply them with food they could become a country that stands on their own, and provides for themselves. Much like the U.S. we have taken care of generations of welfare addicts, anyone can need help from time to time but all their lives is a bit to much for me.
    • optionout  •  Houma, Louisiana  •  3 mths ago
      When was there NOT a time when Africa needed assistance!?
    • Gulliver  •  Orlando, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Yeah, I trust the U.N. like I trust a wolf to guard a rabbit. This is the same organization that was responsible for the "Oil for Food" scandal a few years back. It was the largest charity scandal in modern history, and many innocent Iraqis died as a result. All the money in the world cannot fix the hell Africa is in, until the corrupt warlords and politicians stop letting a good portion of food aid waste away in warehouses.
    • no2nwo  •  3 mths ago
      The United Nations is nothing more than a corrupt body of individuals who represent the One World Government that was funded by DAVID ROCKEFELLER. Look it up. They could care less about them going hungry. They just want to start more wars and consolidate all resources. Dont worry you will begin hearing more and more about the UN as they come out and attack America liberties
    • Bill  •  Norfolk, Virginia  •  3 mths ago
      They need to look for Bugs.
    • John  •  Ocala, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Try growing your own food as we did when we came to a country called America! Every time I watch a documentary on Africa, you always see the people sitting around doing nothing! What you think we will come and grow your crops? Gimme a break Africa...try growing food instead of killing each other and piracy!
      • Stuffy 3 mths ago
        In case no one has been listening, America has problems of our own. We can no longer be expected to send our soldiers to protect everyone who wants to continually fight, to provide health care, rebuild whole countries as well as send untold amounts of food to all with their hands out. Yes, they need help but we must take care of our own first. It is time for some other countries to stand up to help out those enduring tragic circumstances. It seems the UN believes it is America's duty to take care of everything and everyone as well as pay the UN's bills. No longer! We work, save and scrimp to each pay our own household bills and we practice birth control. IF WE CAN, THEY CAN! Yes it will take work, new plans must be adhered to and responsibility accepted. Now let us see some pictures of you working!
    • Pollyanna  •  3 mths ago
      Hurry up, hurry up! The African war lords need more of your money.
    • tree bunny  •  3 mths ago
      Come on now.I remember way back when I was a child in the 60's they showed Africa needing food.This is 2012 and they still want a hand out.The only difference from then and now is the kids were eatting out of tin bowls and the TV was black and white.But now its in color and they are drinking out of plastic bowls. As long as there is a hand out they will keep humping and America will keep giving.
      • Joe 3 mths ago
        Exactly, and the black americans do the same thing.
      • tree bunny 3 mths ago
        Not really joe.Race really has nothing to do with it.People are just that way.If you give them a hand out they will want more and more then it gets to the point that you owe it to them.
    • polarismutt  •  Omaha, Nebraska  •  3 mths ago
      sometimes helping people seems to make it worse. its tough not being God
    • RAM  •  Camp, Arkansas  •  3 mths ago
      America has spent that much trying to help this nation! Sent tools and mechinery and spent years teaching them how to farm! It is time this nation makes it own their own! When the people that taught them left, they went right back to living likw they were before,refusing to farm!
      What nation is sending money to starving and homeless Americans? NONE

      I drive through towns in America see ruin down houses and old people that can not afford to fix them! Americans are losing their homes for local taxes! So be sure to send you own funds to Africa! Or better yet go change the politics there!
      America is seeing afrakin style politics right now! And will be as bad as africa in the next 5 years!
    • cesar  •  Orlando, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      African american help send your money africans need food
    • The Hunter  •  3 mths ago
      Let allah give them food! Teach them how to fish,don't give them fish! They spend all their their time praying to allah,when do they work? Must hardworking people always food the bills of their lazy compatriots who foolishly, don't want to know the value of time?
    • .  •  3 mths ago
      I wonder how the 'world' feels today without America inserting itself into every crisis. Even if we intervene for the affected people foreign corruption is uncontrollable.
    • the truth  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      we are the world, and we are broke.maybe its time to move out of the desert
    • Pollyanna  •  3 mths ago
      Denying Darwinism is and has been a waste of money.
    • Sarafina  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  3 mths ago
      Send birth control until if and when they can learn to sustain their citizens, I can't be the only one to come up with this logical solution. I guess no matter how hungry they are they will continue having sex. Who with even one brain cell would choose to have a child that would be hungry, poor, uneducated with no future if givin the choice?
    • casey Stott  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      I would rather help these people with foreign aid than give those Middle Eastern governments so much when they just help the terrorists behind our backs (Pakistan mainly). If I have to give money to other countries feeding the hungry is way better than promoting gay rights over seas (thanks Obama for using my tax dollars to win yourself votes).
    • Joe  •  3 mths ago
      #$%$ them lazy breeders, they are just like that in the US also, all they do is breed and want more handouts, the black race is worthless.
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