UN Launches New Plan to Tackle Chronic Hunger in Sahel -- Voice of America
GENEVA — The United Nations has announced a new three-year action plan to tackle chronic hunger in Africa’s Sahel region. The U.N. is appealing for $2 billion to provide humanitarian assistance for 20 million people across the region in 2014.
More people than ever are at risk in the Sahel, according to the U.N. It says the number of people lacking access to food this year is almost twice as many as in 2013. And, of the 20 million people suffering food shortages, it says 2.5 million are in urgent need of life-saving assistance.
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ReplyDeleteThis $2 Billion Aid will neither go to food, nutrition nor infrastructure for food logistics.
It is of 99.99% probability a side order of the latest Farm Bill in U.S. Congress to Agri Business involved in DoD and CIA operations in Africa outside of the AFRICOM.