Category Archive: FAMINE

Congo Genocide

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Ann Garrison Internally displaced Congolese children shelter from the rain under plastic sheets as they wait for aid to be distributed in Kibati, north of Goma, eastern Congo, on Aug. 8. Drenching rain… Read More →

Squeezing Africa Dry: Behind Every Land Grab Is A Water Grab

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GRAIN Food cannot be grown without water. In Africa, one in three people endure water scarcity and climate change will make things worse. Building on Africa’s highly sophisticated indigenous water management systems could… Read More →

UN STARVES 1 MILLION SOMALIS ON 10 CENTS A DAY

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Thomas C. Mountain The UN announced its budget for feeding the over one million Somali refugees under its care for the next year and have allocated less than 10 cents a day per… Read More →

THE GREAT FOOD ROBBERY

The Great Food Robbery Targets Africa

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INTRODUCTION The global food system is in profound crisis. Over a billion people suffer from hunger each day, and this number is rising faster than the global population, even though there is more… Read More →

AFRICA FOOD SECURITY AND THE G8 SUMMIT

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L’Aquila forgotten amid new “initiatives” to address hunger on the continent Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Members of the Group of 8 capitalist industrialized states of the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Japan,… Read More →

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN THE SAHEL REGION

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PressTVGlobalNews A hunger crisis has returned to sub-Saharan Africa, threatening the lives of millions of people across western and central Africa this year. The crisis has been brought on by severe drought. The… Read More →