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An African leader has dismissed the UN's food agency as a "waste of money" |
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
 President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal spoke out days after the UN announced an emergency plan to bring soaring world food prices under control.
Mr Wade said the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) was itself largely to blame for the price rises.
His comments came as bakers in Nigeria began a week-long national strike in protest at the cost of flour and sugar.
Some global food prices have nearly doubled in the past three years, provoking riots and other protests in Africa, Asia and Latin America. |
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