Instability, displacement, and rising food prices threaten Mali with severe food shortages. [The Guardian] By forcing the government to uphold indigenous land rights, Canada’s First Nations leaders hope to protect the country’s rich natural resources from industry. [The Guardian] Improved healthcare and education in northern Ghana help end the ritualized killings of children born with disabilities. [...]
Tag Archives: famine
Press Review: UNICEF forced to abandon Syrian refugee camps & Extreme weather harder to predict
The president of Refugees International assesses the situation at refugee camps on the Turkish border to Syria. [Huffington Post] Simple geolocation technology helps nonprofits reduce infant and maternal mortality. [The Guardian] Extreme weather caused by global warming is getting harder to predict. [The Guardian] After receiving less than 20% of the funds it requested, UNICEF [...]
Press Review: New oilfield in Kazakhstan a disaster waiting to happen & Preventing future famines in Somalia
Kazakhstan’s new oilfield in the Caspian Sea is set to begin production next year. Environmentalists say that the size of the project is certain to result in the complete destruction of the delicate eco-system it occupies. [BBC] The UN begins a new project in Somalia that will implement a new approach to disaster management. If [...]
Press Review: Sudan blocking humanitarian aid & Gold mines cause lead poisoning deaths in Nigeria
Leo Hickman investigates a new study asserting that electric cars are no better for the environment than their conventional counterparts. [The Guardian] Aid workers in Sudan say that the government is blocking food and supplies from reaching people in South Kordofan and the Nuba mountain, where an estimated 250,000 are facing levels of severe food [...]
Yemen’s looming crisis
Political turmoil and economic underdevelopment tend to affect the most vulnerable most severely. Earlier this year, fairplanet.net reported on Afghanistan’s food problem and the looming threat of famine. Many of us remember the horrific images of the famine in Somalia and other parts of East Africa in 2011. Now it seems as if another country [...]
News Crumbs from the NYT: Africa and India
What’s the price of development? Three reports from Africa and India are shedding light on extensive human encumbrances.
Press Review: Black market organ transplants & Drought in North Korea
Over 10,000 black market organ transplants are performed each year according to the World Health Organisation. The operations are fueled by rich patients who pay gangs to harvest organs from the poor, who recieve little compensation or post-operation medical care. [The Guardian] Brazil’s president has vetoed parts of the controversial forest law—but that still leaves [...]
Food for Thought- Afghanistan’s nutrition problem
According to a CNN report, malnutrition is threatening 60% of Afghan children. A devastating number of 30,000 children die from undernourishment every year.
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As violence in South Sudan escalates from all sides, many accuse the UN of not doing enough to protect the most vulnerable. [Washington Post] In the wake of famine, Mogadishu is filled with refugees who have little if nothing to return home to. [The Guardian] Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have been affected by land [...]
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Why has Russia moved several war ships and an aircraft-carrier into the Syrian port of Tartus? [The Economist] Famine was declared in Somalia six months ago. But hundreds of thousands of Somalis are still suffering from malnutrition and many are dying. [BBC] Gruesome accounts of death and violence in South Sudan, where the situation is [...]
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The final deal reached in Durban—to create a new deal—will take years to complete. But complicating factors such as the upcoming US elections could kill the process before it is finished. [The Guardian] Early warning systems in Africa detect the possibility of a 2012 famine. Organizations such as Oxfam are working to ensure that future [...]
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Examining America’s role in the coup that ousted Honduras’s president and its current support of the country’s militarized government. [The Guardian] Famine has been eradicated in three of the hardest hit areas of Somalia, but reports from the ground tell of a less optimistic situation. [BBC] An interactive feature in the Wall Street Journal examines [...]
