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NIAMEY, Niger (AP) - The U.N. food agency inaugurated a program Friday to help feed hundreds of thousands of people in Niger as the impoverished West African nation struggles to recover from severe shortages.
Scant rainfall and locusts ruined crops two years ago and Niger suffered through a massive food crisis in 2005. Crop yields picked up last year but food stores are again dwindling ahead of this year's harvest.
The World Food Program said it would begin distributing cereals Friday to 650,000 people.
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