Seems that part of the problem for the food shortage in Niger is some dumb customs!
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')Kim Sengupta of the Independent newspaper found that men had left their families, locking the grain store, while they were away.
"They've gone away to look for work or look for money and sometimes across the border in Nigeria. And you have this strange situation where there were women in the villages with stocks of sorghum and millet with hungry children, but no access to the food," he says.
