UN Launches New Plan to Tackle Chronic Hunger in Sahel

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...

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