Food Aid Finally Arrives in Remote Areas
Food by the truckload is finally reaching remote northern Niger, eight months after the first pleas for help. United Nations appeals beginning in November went almost unanswered until the situation reached crisis proportions.
Almost a third of the population of 11.3 million risk starvation in this desperately poor West African nation, hit by locusts and then drought.
In the World Food Program’s warehouse in Maradi, about 2,200 tons of sorghum, 45 tons of vegetable oil and 76 tons of beans are ready to be dispatched by various aid agencies. Additional aid has already been shipped.
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