Tons of Food Sought Amid Fears of Famine
From Times Wire Reports
Mauritania appealed for tens of thousands of tons of emergency food aid to help stave off famine in drought-stricken rural areas.
The nation’s fertile coastline on the Atlantic Ocean is 300 miles long and narrow, with the bulk of the country stretching far east and north into the Sahara desert.
Interior Minister Lemrabott Sidi Mahmoud Ould Sheik Ahmed said rain had been insufficient, reservoirs were empty, the Senegal River was low and “we fear more and more animals will die.”
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