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EU food aid for flood victims

The EU has also provided Niger with 115 tonnes of food aid for people affected by floods in August, Nafoga Adamou of Niger's Systeme d'Alerte precoce et de Gestion des Catastrophes (Early Warning and Disaster Management System) told IRIN this week. The floods killed a total of seven people, left 22,000 homeless and destroyed 2,000 houses. They also swamped 21,600 ha of farmland in various parts of the country in the last third of August, Adamou, who heads the System's Early Warning Unit, said. As a result about 2.5 million people were threatened by a food deficit.

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