Number of hungry children in Africa’s Sahel hits 10-year high
![Rural women who have carried their malnourished children for days across the Sahel desert in search of [food] rush into an emergency feeding center in the town of Guidan Roumdji, southern Niger, July 1, 2005. [Niger's severe food crisis could have been prevented if the United Nations had a reserve fund to jump-start humanitarian aid while appeals for money were considered, a senior U.N. official said on July 19. Some 3.6 million people are in need of food, among them 800,000 malnourished children. About 150,000 may die unless food arrives quickly in the impoverished West African nation of 13 million.] Picture taken July 1, 2005. - PBEAHUNYKGE](https://d2c13moo8u717n.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/11/16120511/2018-11-16T175152Z_1_LYNXNPEEAF1GT_RTROPTP_3_NIGER-250x140.jpg)
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