Food Arrives In Niger; More Aid Needed

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Food Arrives In Niger; More Aid Needed
Shipments of large quantities of food aid arrived recently in Niger, where millions are facing extreme poverty and malnutrition each day

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Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005 Posted: 10:18:08AM EST

Shipments of large quantities of food aid arrived recently in Niger, where millions are facing extreme poverty and malnutrition each day, bringing some hope to a starved population that had been waiting for weeks.

Trucks from World Vision and CARE unloaded sacks of the staple cereal millet, beans and cooking oil that had been brought from a warehouse run by the UN's World Food Programme. The people in the arid cities of Maradi and Zinder, where situations are most critical, began receiving the aid this week.

"Our free distribution programme will begin Wednesday in the areas identified as critical and extremely critical by the Niger government," World Vision's representative at Maradi, Clement Faye said earlier in the week.

World Vision will be distributing a total of 4,320 tons of food from the WFP in two batches, in August and September. CARE, meanwhile, started distributing food on Tuesday at Dakoro, north of Maradi.

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