05-29-2010, 08:51 AM
AP - At this time of year, the Gadabeji Reserve should be refuge for the nomadic tribes who travel across a moonscape on the edge of the Sahara to graze their cattle. But the grass is meager after a drought killed off the last year's crops. Now the cattle are too weak to stand and too skinny to sell, leaving the poor without any way to buy grain to feed their families.
Posted on Fri, 28 May 2010 16:20:30 GMT at http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/hea...ood_crisis