The Washington Post, August 3rd, 2005
The cameras are rolling on another African disaster: Niger and its desperate, starving children have thrust the continent back into the global spotlight. And this tragedy has unfolded on the world's television screens even as leaders of the industrialized countries at the Group of Eight summit pledged a historic amount of debt relief and humanitarian aid to African countries. Welcome tidings of the affluent world's largess have collided with yet another outstretched hand -- another cry for help -- from our continent. For Niger is not an isolated island of desperation; it lies within a sea of p...
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