Labor & Economic News Blog


Monday, September 12, 2005

Niger: Food Crisis Drives Young Women to Sell Their Bodies
Finding enough to eat is a problem every lean season in landlocked Niger, ranked last of 177 countries in the UN's human development index for 2005. But this year - in the aftermath of 2004's locusts and drought that wreaked havoc across the arid Sahel - regions of the country have been gripped with widespread severe malnutrition.

 



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