The following are recent reports from World Vision, a worldwide nonprofit charitable organization:

NIGER

The food emergency in Niger keeps getting worse.  The number of people at risk has risen to over 6 million - almost half the country's population!  Countless refugees add to that number, as they escape the violence in Libya, Mali, and Nigeria.  "For some families, getting trough the crisis means choosing which child will get to eat," says Paul Sitnam, World Vision emergency director. ...

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