Sierra Leone faces starvation

Five months after a military coup and subsequent looting of food reserves, up to 200,000 people face starvation in the African nation of Sierra Leone according to the United Nations World Food Program.

In a November 7 report by Agence France-Presse, Paul Ares, West Africa director for the program, said, “The situation gets worse each month. Our stocks are diminishing, and we have to decide who eats this month and who will go hungry.”

The report noted that security concerns have prevented distribution of food since the coup, as a raging civil war and regional economic embargoes have taken their toll.

4 thoughts on “Sierra Leone faces starvation”

  1. Maybe if leaders knew how to control things in their community such as fertility, then maybe they would have enough food to give to everyone. Think about it their going hungry and having children almost every month, keep things in check and killing refugees is not the solution to everything. Make sure people are not over populating take care of the people that are already hungry.

  2. this is a great idea poala ovepolutoin is a probel to african countries .so why not help think about the children in that country thier the future of theire country .will I think that starvation can be stop if people help.

  3. You have so many things in your life to be greatful for. Maybe the only one thing they’ve got that they cant be deprived of is making love.

  4. I think it can be stopped if the people there will help and the government also provide food equally .

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