Venezuela to provide $5 million to thwart famine in Somalia http://www.abn.info.ve/node/68675

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez approved this Friday five million dollars to thwart the food crisis undergone in Somalia, country located in the east of the African continent.The President detailed that next Sunday will be sent 50 tons of food to Somalia, where almost 780 thousand children might starve to death according to a warning issued by the United Nations International Children"s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).

There will be also sent a commission of Venezuela"s National Bolivarian Armed Forces to aid this African country, in which have been registered the death of tens of thousands of people in the last months.

“The least we may do is to help. We approved five million dollars to buy foods and try to thwart death and famine, which are the result of the savage capitalism,” said the Venezuelan President in local television, through a phone call from Havana, Cuba.President Chavez held a conversation with People"s Power spokespeople who were receiving resources to finance communal projects, in an event headed by Executive Vice-President Elias Jaua in western Venezuela.