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Fri 10 Oct 2008Food crisis leaves one billion hungry
THE GLOBAL financial crisis cannot be used as an excuse for inaction on a food crisis that leaves almost one billion people hungry every day, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has said.
Speaking at an international conference in Dublin yesterday, Mr Annan noted that "while national governments and international lenders scramble to inject hundreds of billions of dollars into failing banks, the developing world goes hungry".
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