Niger: Food aid is 'misdirected'
13.09.2005
Large numbers of children have died as a result of the food crisis in Niger which began early this year, an aid agency estimates. France's Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says the death rate is several times over the international emergency level. On average more than 40 young children have been dying a day in one area surveyed in the east of the country.