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Posts Tagged ‘famine’
Natural disasters, Politics, Dec 17th, 2011,
A million children living in the Sahel countries are at risk of famine or dramatic malnutrition in 2012. This is two times more than today, warned the United Nations Fund for Children. Famine threatens children in Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mauritania and Mali and the northern territories of Nigeria and Cameroon, said David Gressly, regional director of UNICEF responsible for the countries in West and Central Africa. In 2011 in the region half a million children suffered from extreme malnutrition. In the Sahel countries, a drought caused lack of water in the tanks, its levels also decreased in the…
Tags: Africa, children, drought, famine, malnutrition, Sahel
Politics, Oct 6th, 2011,
I love watching celebrities curse. It’s such a guilty pleasure. Having grown up in the 80s in the USA – without HBO or Showtime – upon moving to the UK I reveled in the obscenities thrown around on British television with self-indulgent abandon. And I still do. That’s right – give me an f-, s- or even dreaded c-word over a ‘gosh-darn’ any day. If you don’t like it, f-you. Seriously though, as puerile as it sounds, Jessica Alba and Bono swearing in a YouTube video while the Stooges’ ‘Now I Wanna Be Your Dog’ blasts in the background is…
Tags: Africa, celebrities, clive owen, f-word, famine, Somalia, swearing
Climate Change, Natural disasters, Jul 27th, 2011,
Last week the United Nations declared a famine in two southern areas of Somalia. According to aid workers 800,000 children could die due to the current hunger. Somalia’s Foreign minister warned that 3.5m are at risk of death by starvation. All in all, around 10m people are in peril. Islamist Militants have expelled workers from the UN’s World Food Program workers where possible. Nonetheless, the WFP is in the process of delivering 10 tons of food to the areas worst stricken by the drought and famine. From the BBC: Somalia is thought to be worst-hit by the crisis, but Ethiopia,…
Tags: drought, famine, Somalia
Climate Change, Politics, Jul 22nd, 2011,
What does the UN Security Council have to do with climate change? Last year the UN Secretary for the Convention on Biological Diversity, Ahmed Djoghlaf, warned that population growth, urbanization, agriculture and climate change increase poverty and decrease security. He may not have been talking about war, but the links between armed conflicts and water and food shortages, as well as population movements due to natural disasters, are not so hard to see. Food prices have been associated with climate change and NATO has already made the connection between issues of global security and the global environmental crisis. Now Achim…
Tags: Achim Steiner, Climate change, famine, link, security, Somalia, UN, war, world peace
