UN Begins Food Airlifts to Niger

Peter Daou - July 30, 2005 - 1:40 pm

"A flight chartered by the United Nations (UN) World Food Program has arrived in the west African state of Niger, as efforts intensify to relieve the famine there.

It is carrying more than 40 tonnes of emergency rations. It is the first of a series of planned airlifts over the next few days. Two and a half million people in Niger are at risk of starvation.

The emergency supplies being flown in are being loaded onto trucks and are being delivered across the country." [Link]

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