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Manually ground flour in an Ethiopian home
© Lingbeek
Criminal negligence
The scourge of world hunger
by Roger Thurow
I should have seen my road to Damascus moment approaching. I'd been warned.
"Looking into the eyes of someone dying of hunger becomes a disease of the soul," Volli Carucci of the United Nations World Food Program told me on my first day in Ethiopia.
A disease of the soul? I had received an overdose of medical admonishments during my many years of covering Africa for the Wall Street Journal: Get your yellow fever shot. Don't forget the malaria pills. Beware bilharzia in standing water. Avoid the meningitis season. Be cautious in the cholera zones. But never before had I been warned about my soul.
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