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A plague of hungry quela quela birds has devastated up to 70% of farmers' crops in northern Nigeria.
A BBC correspondent in Yobe state said farmers were in their fields beating drums to scare the birds away.
The birds fly in densely packed flocks and are one of the world's most abundant species.
The area borders Niger which is suffering from severe food shortages because of last year's drought and locust invasions.
Newspapers in Central America bear stark witness to the food crisis facing the region as a combination of drought and flooding devastate vital crops.
From Guatemala in the north to Nicaragua in the south, the press is full of the hardships being suffered far and wide, particularly by the rural sector.
Despite a booming economy, a stock market that reached historic heights in the last decade and reports of welfare reform success, wages for many Americans have simply not risen fast enough to cover the increased cost of living. To these Americans, food has become an unaffordable luxury.
Despite announcements of recent ceasefires, fighting and attacks on civilians in Northern Uganda continues, including raids by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels.on displacement camps and refugee settlements.
The violence has left more than 800,000 people in urgent need of food aid - a significant increase on the 520,000 displaced people WFP was assisting in July 2002.
Thousands of people have lost their homes and belongings. Crops across the region have been destroyed and harvests have been stolen or destroyed. In some cases farmers have not been able to plant because of the fear of being abducted or killed. This has left hundreds of thousands of people dependent on food aid for the foreseeable future.
Two decades of armed conflict and recurrent droughts have left some 3.2 million Sudanese dependent on food aid for survival.
The 20-year civil war between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Army - the single most important cause of food insecurity in Sudan - has resulted in massive displacement of civilians, disruption of agricultural activities and destruction of socio-economic infrastructures in the country.
Originally posted by godservant
Emergency survival - many grow and keep food
One, just wondering why there is still hunger when you can grow food.
Originally posted by godservant
Emergency survival - many grow and keep food. Some actually grow most of their own food. The special ops branches in many militaries practice survival and can live off the land for a long time.
I don't understand why there are so many dieing from hunger. There is aid, but why don't they take seeds with the food? Why not teach agriculture to the hungry countries?