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Tony Hall: “These famines that we are facing today are manmade and it was a failure of leadership that led to these crises, and it…”

On the recordJune 14, 2017
These famines that we are facing today are manmade and it was a failure of leadership that led to these crises, and it will take global leadership to respond.
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Tony Hall
Ohio

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Hall emphasizes that current famines are due to leadership failures and require global action.

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