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7月18日，聯合國糧食及農業組織呼吁國際社會向尼日爾250萬饑餓人口提供緊急援助。糧農組織今年5月曾呼吁國際社會向尼日爾提供400萬美元緊急援助，但迄今只收到65萬美元。外電報道如下：The
costs of saving millions of people starving in Niger are rocketing because
rich nations ignored calls for early intervention to avert the ravages of
last year's drought, relief workers said on Wednesday.
Increasingly desperate appeals from aid agencies and the government
have encouraged donors to come forward with funds in the past few weeks,
but only after large numbers of children began dying of diseases brought
on by hunger.
"The funding needs are sky-rocketing because it's a matter of saving
lives," said Gian Carlo Cirri, the U.N. World Food Program's (WFP)
representative in Niger's capital Niamey.
Drought表示“旱災；干旱季節，長期缺乏或不足”，相關的詞組有：drought-enduring（耐旱的）；drought-resistant（抗旱的）；combat
drought（抗旱）；partial drought（小旱）等。
據悉，尼日爾近年遭受嚴重干旱和蝗蟲災害侵襲，農業生產遭到毀滅性打擊，全國大部分地區陷入糧荒，共有250萬人口處在經常性饑餓中，其中80萬兒童嚴重營養不良。
（中國日報網站編） | 
