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Please pray for the people of Niamey Niger West Africa. We just learned that there has been a major drought. The rainy season has not been good and people are starving. Read what I found on the web:

At this time of year, the Gadabeji Reserve should be a refuge for the nomadic tribes who travel across a moonscape on the edge of the Sahara to graze their cattle. But the grass is meagre after a drought killed off last year's crops. Now the cattle are too weak to stand and too skinny to sell, leaving the poor without any way to buy grain to feed their families.
The UN World Food Programme is warning that some 10 million people face hunger over the next three months before the harvest in September – if it comes.
Thomas Yanga, WFP's regional director for West Africa, said: "People have lost crops, livestock, and the ability to cope on their own, and the levels of malnutrition among women and children have already risen to very high levels."
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Oxfam says that eight million people are at risk in Niger, with a further two million in Chad in jeopardy, and that the situation is "going to get extremely bad". Too often in the past, food crises get attention only when there are dead bodies and distended bellies to film. The UN, aid agencies and governments are trying to sound a loud alarm before mass deaths start to occur.

Niamey Niger is where we have been reaching out. As I am reading this I am watching my kids walk away from a plate full of pizza and mandarin oranges with tears in my eyes. O how my heart breaks to think of them roaming the land looking for something to eat. But even more how my heart breaks to think of so many people dying of starvation before they have heard about a Savior that wants to take them to Paradise for eternity. There are so many faces and names that come to my head and I am on my knees begging the Lord to write their name in His book. Please pray for the families that serve the Lord full time in this area. Pray that there would be open doors to share the life saving message that the people of Africa so need.