A specter hangs over Nigeria`s presidential election: hunger
(LA Times Dodgers)

Salamatu Jibril takes one look at 1-month-old Sufiyan, drowsy under a heavy blanket on a sweaty day in northern Nigeria, and knows there´s a problem. `The child is 2.7 kilograms [5.9 pounds] and is wasted,` Jibril says, using a term that specialists commonly ascribe to children who don´t weigh...