Millions at risk from African famine worsened by Boko Haram -UN
Women sell food in Kerawa, Cameroon, March 16, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Penney/ OSLO (Reuters) - Aid agencies must get food to close to 3 million people by July to avert a famine in Africa's Lake Chad region caused by drought, chronic poverty and Islamist insurgents Boko Haram, the United Nations said on Friday as it launched a funding appeal. International donors at a conference in Oslo pledged $672 million for the next three years in new money, $457 million of which was for 2017, Norway's foreign minister said. The United Nations, which says it ...
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