ApocaDocs: Djibouti: 'Almost half the population facing food shortages'

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Posted Thu Jun 26 2008: from UN, via ReliefWeb:


	Djibouti: 'Almost half the population facing food shortages' http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1214515508 A significant percentage of Djibouti's population could face food shortages due to drought, rising prices with declining remittances, and high levels of livestock deaths, an early warning information service has warned.... "Significant food deficits exist in all pastoral areas due to a combination of three consecutive below-average rainy seasons, extremely high prices for staple foods, declining remittances, and high levels of livestock mortality (40-50 percent)," the network noted. "The situation is critical, and pre-famine indicators have been observed."

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The ApocaDocs say:

Pre-famine, pre-apocalypse, pre-collapse indicators have also been observed elsewhere.