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In a land where seasonally migrating animal herds are the economic foundation, there are reports of %40 of herds starving for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/mali-creeping-famine-in-the-north\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107,106,174],"tags":[403,249,306,229,315,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1054,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/05\/niger-mali-hunger-famine-or-both\/","url_meta":{"origin":1003,"position":0},"title":"Niger, Mali: Hunger, famine or both","date":"May 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Hopefully by now everyone knows that parts of West Africa, especially pockets of Chad and Niger, are struggling with the worst food shortages since 2005. 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