Children the face of Africa’s unrelenting hunger

TO see Africa’s unrelenting hunger, look at the fevered eyes of 17 malnourished infants languishing in a west African hospital.

Food crises there have focused attention on the politics and geography of hunger on the world’s poorest continent, and how rich nations respond.

The UN says it needs $2 billion to help feed more than 25 million Africans in 2005. Funds raised so far? Less than half.