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Nuclear Famine: Two Billion People At Risk?
Global Impacts of Limited Nuclear War on Agriculture, Food Supplies, and Human Nutrition – Dr. Helfand's report on climate impacts of a nuclear war – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Physicians for Social Responsibility (PDF)
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25,000 North Korean children starving amid drought
A drought that slashed food production by 20 percent has resulted in malnutrition for nearly 25,000 North Korean children. UNICEF, the United Nations' children's fund, said the children need emergency care and has asked donors for $18 million for North Korea, The Guardian reported Tuesday. While UNICEF's request for funds is rising, donations are falling, according to the organization. Sources say that whenever Pyongyang tests a nuclear weapon...
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Ethiopia's Drought Is Worse Than During 'We Are the World' Famine
More than 10 million people are in need of food aid in Ethiopia amid a drought worse than the one that triggered the haunting 1984 famine, the U.N. has warned. Crops have withered, animals have died and water sources have dried up in parts of northeastern Ethiopia following the failure of the last two rainy seasons.
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Kim Jong Un tells North Koreans to prepare to 'chew roots' as famine looms
North Korea is about to be plunged into another ‘Arduous March’ – the famine that killed millions in the 1990s. People living in the highly secretive country have been warned by Kim Jong-un’s government to prepare to ‘chew on roots of plants once again’. They have also been reminded that their loyalty to the leader should not waver – even if they are on the verge of dying from hunger. Around 3.5million people died between 1994 and 1998, during a famine that became...
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Kim Jong Un broadcasts 'Master Chef'-style cooking competition while North Korea starves
Cheese-chomping despot Kim Jong Un held a “Master Chef”-style competition to find North Korea’s top cooks as millions across the nation starve. The Emmental-obsessed dictator gave the show, which was broadcast on state TV, the green light despite an estimated two-thirds of the country’s 27 million people surviving on food rations. The Commie connoisseur developed a love of European cheeses and fine wines when he went to school in Switzerland.
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Yemen on brink of famine as civil war rages
The UN Security Council is calling on all parties in Yemen's civil war to halt all military activity and abide by the terms of a cessation of hostilities agreed upon in April.
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A staggering hunger crisis is unfolding in Nigeria, and the world is barely aware
They survived Boko Haram. Now many of them are on the brink of starvation. Across the northeastern corner of this country, more than 3 million people displaced and isolated by the militants are facing one of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters. Every day, more children are dying because there isn’t enough food. Curable illnesses are killing others. Even polio has returned. About a million and a half of the victims have fled the Islamist extremists and are living in makeshift camps...
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More than one million children starve as Yemen war rages: U.N. agencies
Around 1.5 million children in Yemen are malnourished and half the population lives in hunger, United Nations aid agencies said on Friday, three days after pictures of an emaciated Yemeni teenager sparked headlines around the world. Yemen's 18-month war has left 370,000 children at risk of severe malnutrition - a condition which needs urgent treatment to prevent a child from dying - the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said at a press briefing in Geneva on Friday.
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Hundreds of thousands face starvation and death in Africa in the growing crisis no one is talking about
During the drought that devastated the Horn of Africa in 2010 and 2011, women bound their waists with rope to deaden the pangs of hunger as they gave what little food they had to their children. In stark contrast to such selfless acts, the international community stood back and watched until it was too late for the 260,000 people who starved to death.
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People are being forced to eat rubbish in the war the world forgot
Starvation and poverty provoked by the civil war in Yemen is so desperate that the country’s poorest are turning to rubbish for food. A 45-year-old father trying to feed his family of 10 and a 12-year-old beggar trying to feed his four siblings have each told al-Jazeera this week how they are sifting through dumps to survive.
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Remember The Starving Kid Left To Die By His Parents? He Just Had His First Day Of School
In late January 2016, a Danish aid worker went on a rescue mission on the streets of Nigeria, and discovered a starving child on the edge of death. The moment was captured in a haunting photograph, in which she tilts a water bottle toward the frail young boy's lips. One year later, the same boy is starting school after a full recovery, and a recreation of his first photo shows just how far he's come.
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‘Our Worst Fears Have Been Realized’: The Famine We Could Have Stopped in South Sudan
South Sudan just declared a famine. But it’s been years in the making and it could have been stopped.
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Venezuelans Are Separating Food from Waste as More People Forced to Eat from Garbage
With no solution to the food crisis in Venezuela, people have begun looking for new strategies to make life easier on people forced to eat from garbage.
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Famine declared in South Sudan
‘Man-made’ food crisis threatens 100,000 people after war and a collapsing economy devastate agriculture in the country
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UN: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945
The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, the United Nations says, issuing a plea for help to avoid "a catastrophe". UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria. Unicef has already warned 1.4m children could starve to death this year. Mr O'Brien said $4.4bn (£3.6bn) was needed by July to avert disaster.
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In Drought-Stricken Somalia, Starving Mothers Forced To Choose Which Child To Feed
With food an impossibly scarce commodity in drought-stricken Somalia, Fatuma Abdille faces a harrowing choice every day: Which of her seven children will get to eat? “If there’s a very small amount of food, we give it to those who need it the most — the youngest,” Abdille told Reuters this week from the capital Mogadishu, where her family recently fled after their herd of goats died from starvation.
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As drought sweeps Kenya, herders invade farms and old wounds are reopened
Sitting on the edge of Kenya’s highest mountain, its spectacular dun-coloured vistas stretching out into the endless distance, Laikipia is one of the most beautiful corners of east Africa. The region received a rush of publicity in 2010 when Prince William proposed to Kate Middleton at a log cabin there. Tens of thousands of tourists now flock to parks and reserves in an area that promises rare sights including the world’s last three remaining northern white rhinoceroses.
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“Catastrophic”
Saudi Arabia’s expected military assault on major Yemen port will almost certainly cause mass starvation. By Peter Salisbury
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Data Dive: Slipping into Famine
Four countries in an arc across central Africa and the Middle East—Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen—are at risk of mass starvation due to conflict and drought, with two parts of South Sudan already declared officially 'under famine' by the United Nations. Another region is edging towards the worst-case classification, according to U.N. officials.
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20 million starving to death: inside the worst famine since World War II
When war came to 15-year-old Rebecca Riak Chol’s small town in rural South Sudan in early April, she and 27 other villagers fled into nearby marshlands to hide. They spent two grueling weeks slowly making their way to the relative safety of a region controlled by rebels from her same tribe. They were constantly hungry, constantly thirsty, and constantly in danger of being killed by the troops trying to hunt them down. Chol’s sister died along the way, but it wasn’t because she was found and shot. Instead, she — like growing numbers of South Sudanese — died from starvation.
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