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news Niger August 16, 2010 7:36AM

Aid Workers Warn of Famine Disaster in Niger

By Rukmini Callimachi

WashingtonPost.com/Associated Press, August 14, 2010

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Niger is now facing the worst hunger crisis in its history, with almost half the country's population in desperate need of food and up to one in six children suffering from acute malnutrition, aid officials say.

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