Don't have too much time to spend on getting something out today; it's my mom's birthday and we're headed out of town to celebrate.
So we leave things today to Noreen Connolly, who is traveling through western Africa with Nick Kristof of the New York Times. Connolly, in a piece submitted yesterday, turned in a heart-warming-yet-rending report from Molii, a village in southern Niger.
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Showing posts with label niger. Show all posts
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Monday, May 24, 2010
Go Hug Your Children, Right Now
Some years back, if you're a fan of Anderson Cooper, you may have seen his 2005 series on Anderson Cooper 360, 'Starving In Plain Sight', concerning a famine that was hitting the country of Niger at the time.
The actual report, for some reason, isn't on YouTube, but there is a follow-up he did two years later in 2007 for 60 Minutes:
There may be a rerun on the horizon. If you'd like to help try and head it off, I'd suggest CARE. No sense waiting until a potential famine becomes an actual famine.
The actual report, for some reason, isn't on YouTube, but there is a follow-up he did two years later in 2007 for 60 Minutes:
There may be a rerun on the horizon. If you'd like to help try and head it off, I'd suggest CARE. No sense waiting until a potential famine becomes an actual famine.
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