New York, Jul 21 2005 12:00PM
Following repeated appeals to the international community to help stave off a deepening hunger crisis in Niger, where 2.5 million people are in need of food aid, a much-needed French airlift arrived today in one of the hardest hit areas of the impoverished West African country, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) reported. More: UN News.
President Bush has promised to double the piddling French donations. (I lie.)