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Africa (Famine)

Volume 184: debated on Monday 21 January 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his estimate of the number of people in Africa currently threatened by famine.

The United Nations World Food Programme estimates that at least 20 million people are currently under threat.