“But what is tyranny? Or how can a free people be deprived of their liberties? Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a [...]
link to video http://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2012/02/2012224114012679889.html Six months after donors poured money and aid into the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, aid groups are warning the situation remains dire. Dadaab is the world’s biggest refugee settlement, sheltering almost 500,000 Somalis who have fled across the border. Al Jazeera‘s Peter Greste is the first journalist [...]
(Source: Munich RE)Live Insurance News, an online insurance industry publication, reports: Climate-Related Severe Weather Made 2011 Costliest Year on Record: Reports 2011 Disasters Make it Costliest Year on Record Though it would be impossible to calculate the full financial cost of a rapidly warming world or asign perfect blame to the cause of [...]
Rich countries are failing to contribute to an international emergency fund leaving the world “dangerously unprepared” for future disasters, the international development secretary has warned. Andrew Mitchell said the UN’s disaster response funding system is expected to be left severely underfunded despite a wave of large-scale disasters over the last year, [...]
An activist of British charity Oxfam pretends to eat a piece of coal as a protest aimed at 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) on December 9, 2011 in Durban. Photograph: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images 3.00pm: The latest take from WWF in Durban is that government leaders are still not seeing the big picture. The climate [...]
US must stop promoting biofuels to tackle world hunger, says thinktank Global Hunger Index says US government support for corn ethanol was a factor in this year’s food price spikes reddit this Comments (38) Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 October 2011 18.22 BST Article history Global Hunger Index 2011′s mapAmerica must stop [...]
Somalis have lived for 20 years without a functioning government and the services it would supply [GALLO/GETTY] Al-Shabab and Somalia‘s ‘far enemy’ Al-Shabab has withdrawn from Mogadishu, but the country is shattered from years of civil war and US military actions. Abdullahi walks slowly past makeshift stalls in a crowded Mogadishu [...]
‘A Constellation of Secret Drone Bases’ and the American License to Kill John Glaser, September 21, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Yesterday’s Washington Post: The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive [...]
Hamas donates $140,000 to Somalia Published yesterday (updated) 13/09/2011 14:13 A boy sits looking over the Seyidka settlement for the famine stricken internally displaced people in Berkulan near Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, September 6. Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation, the United Nations [...]
Media consumers become interested in events in the Third World when they are provided context by journalists who examine issues like climate change, foreign intervention and economic trends [AFP] Reports of famine vary wildly in their impact. Sometimes images of emaciated children in relief camps provoke an outpouring of charitable giving. The music and entertainment industry [...]
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years, leading the UN to declare famine in the region [Reuters] An African donors conference has pledged $356m to help more than 12 million people across the Horn of Africa suffering from the region’s worst drought in 60 years. The African Development Bank offered $300m [...]
JUAN GONZALEZ: The United Nations has called an emergency meeting to discuss the Horn of Africa drought, which it says has already claimed tens of thousands of lives. Famine was declared in two regions of Somalia on Wednesday, where 3.7 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Another eight million people need food assistance [...]
A worker displays a handful of corn at an ethanol plant. Photograph: Mark Blinch/Reuters There were times when Arlyn Schipper could almost feel heroic on his family farm in the heart of America’s corn belt. His 1,619 hectares (4,000 acres) in Iowa, planted almost entirely with corn, were helping to feed a nation – or [...]
JUAN GONZALEZ: The United Nations has called an emergency meeting to discuss the Horn of Africa drought, which it says has already claimed tens of thousands of lives. Famine was declared in two regions of Somalia on Wednesday, where 3.7 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Another eight million people need food assistance [...]
Aid Agencies Saw Drought Coming in East Africa, So Why Couldn’t They Help Prevent Famine? Forced from their homes by drought, these refugees are seeking aid at the Dadaab camp. (Photo courtesy UNHCR) LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. [...]
You can view the video at: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/witness/2011/08/2011810113949471720.html Directed by multi-award winning director Jamie Doran Remember Band Aid, Live Aid and developed countries‘ determination to ‘Feed the World‘? Well, we failed. There are more Africans living in extreme poverty today than ever before. Africa Rising goes right inside the extraordinary story of how a large rural [...]
Gaza. Somalia. Humanity Lives on Kids in Gaza. (Zoriah.net) By Ramzy Baroud I remember how exhilarated I felt when I was told I was old enough to fast for the month of Ramadan. My feelings had little to do with abstention from food and drink between dawn and sunset each day. For a child, there [...]
Somali forces have reinforced their hold on Mogadishu, but al-Shabab called its retreat a “tactical move” [AFP] Somalia‘s government has offered an open amnesty to al-Shabab fighters after the rebels made a surprise withdrawal from the capital, Mogadishu, over the weekend. “We offer an amnesty – put down your weapons and your guns, and come and [...]
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) The famine in the Horn of Africa is spreading and may soon engulf as many as six more regions of the lawless nation of Somalia, the U.N. humanitarian aid chief said Monday. Some “12.4 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti are in dire need of help and the situation is [...]
You can watch the video at: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/countingthecost/2011/07/201173010323514396.html George Ikners ikners.com It is perhaps the worst drought and famine in East Africa in 60 years, taking in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Three million Somalis are at risk of starvation, with thousands of them leaving their homes for Mogadishu, Ethiopia or Kenya. The United Nations says it [...]
Somali militia, as well as other armed forces active in the region, have played a major role in creating the conditions for the current famine in Somalia [EPA] Droughts are common in the Somali peninsula, but only an exceptional one produces famine. For instance, the Horn of Africa drought of 1984 did not produce famine [...]
World Food Bank Programme director Josette Sheeran says that many of the children arriving at refugee camps are already in Stage four malnutrition, meaning they have a less than 40 per cent chance of surviving [EPA] In Somalia, where civil war has ravaged the country, where conflict continues to claim victims, a new hardship is [...]
Heat, Drought, Famine All Part of Coming ‘Exponential’ Increase Of Climate-Related Disasters Climate change will “exponentially” increase the scale of natural disasters — so when are we going to take this threat seriously? July 22, 2011 | Photo Credit: Oxfam East Africa/Creative Commons LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to [...]
Let us all do what we can to help. (Via Aljazeera) By Ramzy Baroud ‘When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.’ Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions of ‘starving and helpless’ people throughout the Horn of Africa know fully the [...]
There is a video with the report below at http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/07/2011721185014194521.html In drought-hit Horn of Africa countries, refugees are seeking food and water in neighbouring countries as conditions deteriorate. Reporting from the Dolo Ado transit camp near the border between Somalia and Ethiopia, Al Jazeera‘s Peter Greste said the situation is a “good deal [...]
The Horn of Africa smuggling trade could involve more than 70,000 people and be worth more than $20m each year, according to a 2010 report fom Chatam House think-tank [GALLO/GETTY] There were more than 30 people crammed on the back of the truck as the vehicle bumped through the desert in eastern Djibouti. The passengers were men, [...]
East Africa’s hunger crisis has been described by a US official as one of the worst humanitarian crisis in decades amid stepped-up efforts by Western countries to provide relief aid and a decision by Kenya to open a fourth camp for starving refugees. Tens of thousands of Somali refugees are flooding camps in Ethiopia and Kenya – [...]
Newly arrived Somali refugees waiting to be registered at Dagahaley camp, Dadaab in Kenya, [EPA] Kenya has agreed to open a new camp near its Somalia border to cope with the influx of refugees fleeing the region’s worst drought in 60 years. The lfo II camp in Dabaab will open its doors to 80,000 refugees within [...]
