NUTRITION IN A NUTSHELL? Interview with Huub Verhagen of Medecins sans Frontieres
The Norwegian documentary film “The Famine Scam”, about the so-called famine in Niger in 2005, was awarded the Scandinavian prize for the best documentary film. This documentary basically stated that humanitarian actors like M?decins sans Fronti?res (MSF) and the media exaggerated the situation and that there was no “famine” in Niger. The image of the Norwegian Section of MSF suffered, because as Jan Egeland said, the UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator at that time, the figures he had received from MSF…
