U.N. Lacks Funds to Fight Hunger in Sahel
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The United Nations has received only 15% of the $92 million it needs this year to help save about 300,000 children from starvation in the arid Sahel belt, an official said.
The world body launched an appeal in March to help feed more than 5 million people at risk of malnutrition in four countries bordering the Sahara desert: Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.
“In 2006, malnutrition will kill some 300,000 children unless urgent action is taken,” Esther Guluma of UNICEF said.
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