By AFP, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on Saturday dismissed fears the Horn of African nation faces a food crisis, despite sweeping drought across the wider region leaving millions in need of aid. Floods and failed rains caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon have sparked a dramatic rise in the number of people going hungry […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, The Eritrean embassy in London has issued a press statement protesting Martin Plaut’s latest blackmailing report on the BBC World Service programme that said “up to two in three Eritreans going hungry.” His accusations, however, have no substance except that it is designed to maintain the failed effort of creating a hunger stricken image of Eritrea. The following […]
Continue ReadingBy Thomas C. Mountain The World Food Program (WFP), one of the U.N.’s biggest aid agencies, has a very nasty history in Somalia. Back in 2006 just as Somali farmers brought their grain harvest to market the WFP began the distribution of its entire years grain aid for Somalia. With thousands of tons of free […]
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