A million Somali children have starved to death in the past 24 months and this crime goes unnoticed by the international media? BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN According to just released information sourced from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the FSNAU between October 2015 and April 2016, a period of only six months, […]
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Dead camels rot on the outskirts of informal settlements in Ethiopia’s rain-starved Somali region as their owners, once proudly self-sufficient pastoralists, turn to government aid to stay alive. BY JAMES JEFFREY | IRIN NEWS Ethiopia is facing a drought so terrible that nomadic herders, the hardiest of survivors, have been pushed to the brink. The […]
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BY ASSOCIATED PRESS The head of the African Union mission in Somalia is seeking a surge in troops to help the country’s military control areas won back from extremist group al-Shabab, saying the Somali National Army has been unable to take charge as expected. Francisco Caetano Madeira’s request for an unspecified number of extra AU […]
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The Menschen für Menschen charity has said 5.7 million Ethiopians could die of a lack of food. Part of the problem is that other countries are faring even worse and thus getting most of the publicity. BY DEUTSCHE WELLE Some 6 percent of Ethiopia’s population of 98 million suffers from food shortages resulting from a […]
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Drought kills 110 people in just 48 hours as Somalia slips into famine DEUTSCHE WELLE (DW), Somalia’s prime minister announced Saturday that 110 people have died of hunger in the past 48 hours as a severe drought threatens millions of people across the country. The death toll announcement comes just four days after Somalia’s government […]
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Somalia faces a significant risk of deterioration to famine By Katy Migiro | Reuters Somalia risks slipping back into famine, the United Nations, said on Tuesday, as worsening drought has left millions without food, water or healthcare in a country crippled by decades of war. Five million Somalis, or more than four out of 10 […]
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Miss some news this week? Catch up on a few of the stories with this quick weekly news digest. Ethiopia Not Expected to Graduate from Poverty by 2025: UNCTAD (Addis Fortune) – A new report from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) dampens Ethiopia’s prospect of becoming a middle income country by 2025. […]
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By Thomas C. Mountain, UNICEF oversaw the starvation deaths of at least 250,000 Somalis, mainly children, during the last “Great Horn of Africa Drought” and famine of 2010-2012 (at the time the worst in 60 years) all the while being led by Anthony “Tony” Lake, former National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton and failed […]
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