Brussels, 08/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has adopted a global humanitarian aid plan worth €15 million for vulnerable people affected by longer-lasting crises in the Sahel region in Africa. These relief funds, channelled through ECHO, will reduce acute malnutrition and mortality among those who are most vulnerable, in particular the estimated 1.3 million acutely malnourished children under the age of five, as well as five million pregnant and breast-feeding women in...