UN warns of rising hunger deaths

[acmejack]

The number of people dying from chronic hunger and related illnesses is on the rise, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.

More than six million people have died from hunger this year, said WFP director James Morris, in comments to mark World Food Day.

"Hunger and related diseases still claim more lives than Aids, malaria and tuberculosis combined," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4347194.stm

[FloridaPat]

1. Africa's in bad shape. Afghanistan? You would think after 3 years

of US occupation they would be in great shape! Or maybe by growing all those poppies there's no room for food. And then Mongolia. I know nothing about that country.

I wonder how much we're screwing up Africa in our search for oil.