Niger facing famine, millions at risk: president

2010/02/28 15:58:33 @Reuters: World News

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Millions of people are threatened by famine in Niger, the new military ruler said on Sunday in a message that contrasted starkly with his predecessor's reluctance to talk about food shortages. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=aGb4ty4_rXA:-uoB0dGew_A:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=aGb4ty4_rXA:-uoB0dGew_A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=aGb4ty4_rXA:-uoB0dGew_A:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=aGb4ty4_rXA:-uoB0dGew_A:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=aGb4ty4_rXA:-uoB0dGew_A:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/aGb4ty4_rXA" height="1" width="1"/
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