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March 09, 2012

"Millions of people are on the threshold of a major crisis. "

- MAMADOU BITEYEWest Africa Regional Director of the non-profit Oxfam, warning that unless urgent international action is taken, the drought in West Africa could turn into a humanitarian disaster affecting an estimated 13 million people
January 31, 2012

"I think it has really become extreme poverty. They don't have anywhere to harvest absolutely anything."

- ISAAC OXENHAUTnational aid coordinator for the Mexican Red Cross; a severe drought has left 2 million people without access to water and devastated cropland in nearly half the country
August 12, 2011

"Finally, I decided to leave him behind to his God on the road. I am sure that he was alive, and that is my heartbreak."

- WARDO MOHAMUD YUSUFa refugee who was forced to leave her unconscious son en-route while fleeing the drought- and famine-stricken Somalia

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