Famine Looms As Wars Rend Horn Of Africa
                   
freeinternetpress.com     May 17, 2008            

The global food crisis has arrived at Safia Aliâ__s hut. She cannot afford rice or wheat or powdered milk anymore. At the same time, a drought has decimated her familyâ__s herd of goats, turning their sole livelihood into a pile of bleached bones and papery skin. The result is that Ms. Safia, a... [read full story]                    


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