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Friday, February 11, 2011

Like Egypt, Yemen Suffers from High Food Prices

My recent letter in the New York Times highlighted the plight of the hunger relief mission in Yemen. There is practically no funding for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) operation there.

We've already seen the protests in Egypt where hunger, poverty, and high food prices have taken their toll on the population, to a point where the people could take no more.

Read the article at Blogcritics Magazine.