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Angelina Jolie calls for more help for Horn of Africa
05.10.2011 08:22 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Actress and Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has called on the international community to scale up efforts to deal with the crisis in the Horn of Africa.
She spoke at the annual meeting of the Executive Committee of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in Geneva on Tuesday.
Ms. Jolie warned that three quarters of a million people are at risk of death in the next four months in the Horn of Africa which is suffering from conflict, drought and famine.
«This astonishing number of at-risk lives is the reason this is termed the humanitarian crisis of a generation. The work we are doing needs to scale up to meet the needs of these individuals. How we continue to respond to this period of malnutrition and famine is going to define the work of NGOs, governments and international organizations working in the Horn of Africa. It will, quite starkly, determine whether a huge number of people live or die,» Ms. Jolie emphasized.
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