Caritas Switzerland Annual Report of Activities - CARITAS - Schweiz
Caritas Switzerland Annual Report of Activities - CARITAS - Schweiz
Caritas Switzerland Annual Report of Activities - CARITAS - Schweiz
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How can<br />
East Africa<br />
be helped<br />
effectively?<br />
Around 13 million people were victims <strong>of</strong> the famine in East<br />
Africa in 2011, one <strong>of</strong> the most severe droughts in 60 years.<br />
How could this humanitarian tragedy happen? The disastrous<br />
food shortages in the Horn <strong>of</strong> Africa cannot be explained<br />
by the drought alone. The fact is that the extreme<br />
climate affected those regions already characterised by a<br />
weak and backward agriculture.<br />
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