Famine in Africa

Many Somali Famine Victims Afraid To Return Home

AP | By JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 11.26.2011

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DOLO, Somalia -- Lush patches of green dot this once-barren land, allowing goats and camels to graze. A nearby field is full of large, purple onions t...

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PHOTOS: Somalia Famine Baby Back From Brink Of Death

AP | By KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 01.09.2012

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By KATHARINE HOURELD, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya -- As Minhaj Gedi Farah lay silently on a hospital bed three months ago, even his mother had ...

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Which MAJOR World Crisis Are Will And Kate Donating Efforts To?

AP | Posted 01.02.2012

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By Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have packed United Nations emergency supplies in Denmark to ...

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The F Word: Famine is the Real Obscenity

Bono | Posted 12.03.2011

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The food crisis in the Horn of Africa is nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe, but it is getting less attention than the latest Hollywood break-ups and make-ups.

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Thailand's New Rice Policy Could Lead To International Food Price Crisis, Analysts Warn

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.20.2011

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A program sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is warning of a possible spike in international rice prices, a d...

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Corruption And Missing Funds Hurt Hungry Kenya Kids

AP | Posted 11.08.2011

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By Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — International donors are spending nearly half a billion dollars to feed starving Kenyans, even after tens ...

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Doctors Without Borders: Aid Groups Must Admit Much Of Somalia Can't Be Helped

The Guardian | Posted 11.04.2011

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The head of an international medical charity has called on aid agencies to stop presenting a misleading picture of the famine in Somalia and admit tha...

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Famine In The Horn Of Africa

Dion Nicole | Posted 11.01.2011

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Between Anderson Cooper, Bono, and the New York Times deigning to (at least briefly) put a story about famine on the front page, it seems the world has finally taken notice of the unfolding disaster in the Horn of Africa. It is about DAMN time.

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Africa's Grapes Of Wrath

Kari Stoever | Posted 10.31.2011

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Similar to the 1930s across the American Great Plain states, prolonged drought in southern Somalia has turned the region into a dust-bowl, causing widespread famine and a mass exodus into neighboring countries in search of for food, water, shelter and hope.

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African Leaders Pledge $380 Million In Aid To Somalia

AP | Posted 10.25.2011

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Associated Press) -- African leaders have pledged nearly $380 million to help famine-hit families in the Horn of Africa. Dur...

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On The Ground In Somalia (PHOTOS)

K'naan | Posted 10.24.2011

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I left Somalia as a child and returned as a celebrated artist. But it's truly bittersweet, as being celebrated by a famine-struck nation isn't quite the celebration I had dreamt of.

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World Humanitarian Day: Celebrating International And Local Groups Working Together

Elizabeth Wright | Posted 10.19.2011

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This year's World Humanitarian Day is a celebration of people helping people. In Nairobi, where my colleague Kirk Prichard and I have been deployed on...

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Africa Must Donate More To Famine Victims, Aid Group Says

AP | By TOM ODULA | Posted 10.15.2011

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- African governments must make more substantial donations to the international relief effort aiding the more than 12 million people a...

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WATCH: Bono, Anderson Cooper, K'naan Call For Somalia Famine Solution

Posted 10.13.2011

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CNN's Anderson Cooper engaged Bono and Somali singer K'naan in a forthright and passionate conversation this past week about the need for aid in Somal...

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Clinton: U.S. Giving $17M More To Somalia, Must Find Solution

AP | By BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 10.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday described the severe drought threatening more than 12 million Africans with starva...

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Somalia Conditions Could Overwhelm Aid Efforts, Become 'Simply Unbearable': UN

AP | By FRANK JORDANS | Posted 10.09.2011

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GENEVA -- The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the...

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U.S. Eases Terrorism Rules To Speed Up Aid To Somalia

AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 10.02.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration sought to assure aid groups Tuesday that they can deliver desperately needed food to famine-stricken parts...

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Kenyans Donate Over $200,000 Via Text To Drought Victims

BBC | Posted 10.02.2011

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Kenyans have donated nearly $200,000 (£122,000) via mobile phone banking for aid to victims of the worst drought in the region in 60 years. The BB...

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Why Women And Children Need The Most Help In Somalia

Caryl Stern | Posted 10.01.2011

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Last week ⎯ on the dirt, beneath thorn bushes just outside of a refugee camp near the Somalia/Ethiopia border ⎯ a young mother gave birth to a dau...

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One African Nation Won't Acknowledge Drought; People Suffer In Silence

AP | By LUC VAN KEMENADE | Posted 09.29.2011

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MAI-AINI, Ethiopia -- Alem Teke watched her crops in Eritrea shrivel and die from drought. She braved landmines and escaped being raped by soldiers to...

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WATCH: International Aid To Horn Of Africa $800 Million Short

Posted 09.25.2011

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Though 3,500 people flee Somalia per day and children have been left to die on the side of the road, the international aid response to the famine-plag...

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