Niger's Markets Are Full Yet Famine Shadows The Dusty Roads -- The Guardian
Expensive imports and aid remain out of reach for 12 million people facing country's worst food crisis in years.
The billboard propped up at the side of the dusty road offers what the land it stands on cannot provide : a sack of grain, the top prize in an advertising campaign sponsored by a mobile phone company.
Here in Niger, lottery winners win food. And looking beyond the signs along the sweltering route to Tillabéri– a region 18.5 miles (30km) from the capital, Niamey, on a road which stretches north into the Sahara desert and Timbuktu – it is not hard to see why.
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My Comment: More troubles in a region that cannot afford any more problems.
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