Feds should back Charter to End Extreme Hunger

As leaders of the world's top economies huddle in France, food security is on their agenda.

Published November 2, 2011

In September I visited the Dadaab Refugee Camp in northeast Kenya. I saw the vast encampment where almost half a million people, more than four times its capacity of 90,000, now live.

Conflict drove many of Dadaab's original inhabitants from Somalia. In 2011 we have witnessed a dramatic increase of refugees due to the extreme hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa, made worse by the delayed international...

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