Points of view

Niger's women and children starve as men hoard food.

Noura Abdurrahi's four children were crying from hunger, and she knew there was food in the house. But her husband, Musa, had locked it away, out of her reach, when he had left to search for work the previous week.

Now I understand why the President commented:

President Tandja: 'The people of Niger look well fed, as you can see'.

Niger