As the warning signs of a new food crisis appear in West Africa, Oxfam and Save the Children have looked back at the human and economic cost of failing to heed these signs in 2010, with tragic results becoming all too clear in the Horn of Africa last year. Thousands of needless deaths occurred and millions of extra dollars were spent because the international community failed to take decisive action on early warnings of a hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa, according to a new report by the two international aid agencies.
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