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10/24/2004:

"Africa faces worst famine in 20 years"

The world is rallying to head off a famine of a scale not seen in Africa in 20 years.

This week the International Committee of the Red Cross issued a stark warning that villages throughout the conflict-affected Darfur region of western Sudan are facing an "unprecedented food crisis, worse even than the famines they faced in the 1980s and 1990s".

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) fed more than 1,3 million people in Darfur last month, exceeding its own target of 1,2 million and recording its largest food distribution since the humanitarian crisis began.

Full Article : iol.co.za