Mr. President. recent field reports which have come to the Subcommittee on Refugees. as well as a recent unpublished internal report of the Agency for International Development. indicate that famine conditions in Africa are spreading and that death and new catastrophe threatens millions of people in the Sahel and other parts of the continent. The internal AID report. dated June 10. entitled "Drought Situation in the Sahel." fully confirms that "catastrophic consequences" continue from the Sahelian drought. and that the situation is "precarious" in some areas of the Sahel. Moreover. in Ethiopia the situation among the people continues to deteriorate. and serious new emergencies are developing in neighboring Sudan and other areas. Throughout Africa. the number of famine refugees is growingand dramatically in some areas. Relief camps are overburdened. Last years logistical bottlenecks and administrative delays in the movement of food and medicine continues.
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