Stop the African hunger games
To leaders Obama, Noda, Hollande and Merkel:
18 million people -- including 1 million children -- are desperate for food in Africa’s drought-struck Sahel, but urgent appeals for assistance are met with deafening silence by governments worldwide. The UN has only received 43% of the $1.5 billion in aid needed -- it’s a giant shortfall. The US, Japan, France and Germany are the countries with the power to make all the difference by pledging your fair share of the aid. We urge you to stop this catastrophe from turning deadly by acting now.
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The UN says millions of lives could be destroyed unless $1.5 billion in aid is channeled in immediately, but governments have pledged less than half the required sum. The countries who can make all the difference are the US, Japan, France and Germany, but they’re stalling -- that's why I started a petition to appeal to the world for help.
In days, world leaders will gather in Brussels to discuss the Sahel -- if they decide right there and then to pledge their fair share, we can avert disaster. Sign this urgent petition now -- Avaaz, Africans Act 4 Africa, and Oxfam will deliver it in a coordinated stunt when we reach 1 million signatures.
- Baaba Maal, with the Avaaz team
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