COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende says his country is giving 1.6 billion kroner over a three-year period to prevent a famine in the African countries around the Lake Chad Basin, while Germany on Friday added 120 million euros . Brende says there is “a serious humanitarian situation” in the region encompassing Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, adding there “is urgent need to stop the crisis unfolding in an area with 26 million people.”