Gari-News » UN sends food aid to Nicaragua's Miskito Indians Sep 12, 2005
Reuters AlertNet, UK
The UN will send 130 tons of food to 14 Indians near the Coco River who face food shortages because of the rodents, whose numbers have been boosted by snake-hunting, said World Food Program representative Krystyna Bednarska.
"At the moment the crops are affected by a plague of rats which have destroyed 100 percent of the rice crop, 50 percent of the maize crop and some manioc," she said.
