Mr. Speaker. I rise to express my strongest possible support for the supplemental appropriations for African food aid bill. The drought and famine ravaging Africa is real. It is cutting a swath westward through the Sahel. and southward through eastern and southern Africa. Hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of this natural catastrophe. An estimated 100.000 people starved to death last year in Mozambique alone. Hundreds of thousands of others are refugees. We are witnessing a human calamity. the dimensions of which may surpass the drought of the early 1970s. Mr. Speaker. the urgency of this crisis requires an ongoing effort by the United States to provide the most essential necessities of life to poorer nations.
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