Brussels, 26/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - As the famine gripping Niger threatens the lives of 3.6 million inhabitants, aid is beginning to get through to this Saharan country, since the imminent danger was highlighted in the media. The food crisis in this second poorest country in the world (after Sierra Leone) has been caused by drought and the invasion by pilgrim locusts, which in Summer 2004 devastated the harvests, adding to the structural crisis already affecting the country.
The European...