After reading the articles and watching the video's the most eye opening thing to me was reading about Niger. This country is in very bad shape. It is the second poorest country in the world and is only getting worse. There is a terrible famine that is devastating the whole country. Out of every 1000 children that are born, 262 fail to make it to the age of 5. Although the situation in Niger is terrible, they are not the only country facing the famine problems. Many of their neighboring countries such as, Mali, Ethiopia and many others are being effected by this. Alot of this problem can be contributed to the Bad Geography. These countries fall near the equator and deal with extreme tempuatures. This makes it very difficult for these countries to grow crops.
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