Week of June 12, 2010
Niger Famine
Kari Costanza/World Vision
Children scramble to pick up rice at a World Vision food distribution with WFP and UNICEF in Doukoukouneye village, in the Maradi region of Niger.
Description
In the past, the government of Niger refused to admit that the country suffered from a famine, which meant no aid or assistance for starving people.
A new government took over in February of this year — leading to a rather bizarre bit of good news. George Fominyen, a humanitarian affairs correspondent with Reuter's AlertNet based in Dakar, Senegal, explains the change to host Peggy Wehmeyer.
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