What We’re Reading 12/12/08
Reuters: Horn of Africa famine threatens 20 million people: Red Cross
More than 20 million people in the Horn of Africa are at risk of famine due to drought and high food and fuel prices, the Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Thursday, topping the U.N. figure by 3 million. The Red Cross said that the UN estimates of 17 million people in urgent need of food was too low as it failed to take full account of the hungry in Eritrea and Djibouti.
Associated Press: Mugabe claims cholera crisis contained as UN raises death toll to 792
President Robert Mugabe claims the cholera crisis that has killed nearly 800 people in Zimbabwe is contained, and his spokesman said his much-criticized remark that there was no cholera was misunderstood, state media reported Friday. Mugabe’s comments Thursday drew strong criticism from the United States and Britain.
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