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 MARADI, Niger (AP) - Food by the truckload is finally reaching remote northern Niger, eight months after the first pleas for help for the hungry.
Almost a third of Niger's population of 11.3 million people risk starvation in this already desperately poor West African nation, hit first by a locust invasion and then by drought.
Children are the most vulnerable — some 800,000 under age 5 are suffering from hunger, including 150,000 faced with severe malnutrition.
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