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Reports on how aid organizations can provide effective help to African communities who rely on raising livestock in the face drought or famine. Assertion that food aid is necessary during crises, yet it is not the most effective way of providing long term support; Contention that programs should aim to maintain food security after the non-governmental organizations leave; View that non-governmental organizations, international donors, national governments, and local governments need to work together.

Reports that about eight million people are currently facing the risk of dying from starvation in Africa. Areas that have been affected, including Niger; Response of the African Union and other aid agencies to this crisis.