'Cash for work' scheme helps ease Niger food crisis

AFP English 2012-06-14

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Across the Sahel region around 18 million people are now threatened by food shortages. In Niger, recent lack of rain ruined 80 percent of harvests in some areas. The charity Oxfam has introduced a cash-for-work programme to help local people regenerate their land, as well as giving them money to buy food. Duration: 02:05

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