Canadians are reaching into their wallets to help the millions of people in drought-parched East Africa after an international declaration that parts of the region are in famine and a subsequent pledge that the federal government will match their donations.
Money from Canadian donors has doubled in the past week, says a spokesman for the Humanitarian Coalition, a collection of aid agencies that is providing relief in the crisis zone.
By Thursday afternoon, the coalition had raised
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