Oggi tra i giornali italiani se n'č accorta Liberazione. I giornali a grande diffusione tacciono, i mostri sacri del Live 8 pure.

questo il parto del Corriere:
http://www.corriere.it/ultima_ora/agrnews.jsp?id=%7BAAB81FAB-13A7-4F8F-8FCC-A5DAF5931C8C%7D
qui in italiano:
http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/835572.php

World 'ignores' Niger food crisis
Mother and baby in Niger feeding centre
The food crisis has been predicted for almost a year
The United Nations top aid official has accused the international community of neglecting the food crisis in Niger.

Some 150,000 children will die soon without aid, out of 2.5m who need food, said Jan Egeland.

"Niger is the example of a neglected emergency, where early warnings went unheeded," he told the BBC.

Six weeks ago, the UN's Niger appeal had not received a single pledge. However, the government has also sought to play down the scale of the crisis.

It has refused demands to distribute free food and has been criticised for not doing more to prepare for the food shortages.

The crisis was widely predicted after last year's poor harvests, following poor rains and locust invasions.

'Too late'

"The world wakes up when we see images on the TV and when we see children dying," Mr Egeland told the BBC's World Today programme.

"We have received more pledges in the past week than we have in six months. But it is too late for some of these children."


Europeans eat ice cream for $10bn a year and Americans spend $35bn on their pets each year
UN's Jan Egeland
Aid workers in Niger say that children are dying every day in feeding centres in the south of one of the world's poorest countries, much of which lies in the Sahara desert.

They say that up to a quarter of Niger's 12m people need food aid.

The UN has now received just a third of the $30m it had asked for, Mr Egeland said.

The UN under secretary general for humanitarian affairs also said that beyond immediate food aid, the world should help Niger improve its agricultural methods to avoid future food crises - but this programme had received even fewer pledges.

He said the $30m requested for both short - and long-term aid "was nothing".

"Europeans eat ice cream for $10bn a year and Americans spend $35bn on their pets each year."