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Crisis: Niger's Children Starving

I thought at the very least we should be made aware of this crisis... This morning I checked FOXNews.com, the DRUDGE Report, Google News and Aljazeera's English Web site and not even a mention of the "Children starving to death in Niger." Finally on the BBC News' Web site, at the very bottom of the stories, there was a link to a series of reports . The only way I got tipped off to the story was that BBS News, much to their credit, featured it on their BBC World News program last night. Shouldn't this crisis be on the front pages? Sky News reports, "More than three million people, including almost a million children, face starvation if the world continues to ignore the worsening food crisis in Niger. A UN emergency flash appeal for the West African country was launched in May. It followed a locust invasion last year and lack of rain during the agricultural season that plunged nomadic herder and farming families into crisis." The 2004 Tsunami Disaster, an