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Barack Obama: I have family members who live in villages -- they themselves are not going hungry -- but live in villages where hunger…

On the recordJuly 9, 2009
I have family members who live in villages -- they themselves are not going hungry -- but live in villages where hunger is real. And so this is something that I understand in very personal terms and if you talk to people on the ground in Africa, certainly in Kenya, they will say that part of the issue here is the institutions aren't working for ordinary people.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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President Obama discusses the reality of hunger in Africa and the need for effective institutions.

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