Famine News

As part of the book-release promotion for Eating Animals , his new pro-vegetarian polemic, Jonathan Safran Foer published an essay this Saturday in the Wall Street Journal , the premise of which he's repeated on NPR and other media outlets: If we believe in eating meat, he asks, why do we eat some species and not others? More specifically, why do ...

Aid agencies operating in Somalia say they need more money but that some donors are holding back, concerned at where resources might end up in areas too dangerous for international staff.

Frontpage -> Features -> Lifestyles -> Moose Lake collects gifts for Christmas project Christmas is arriving early in Moose Lake, as a local church prepares to serve as a collection point for Operation Christmas Child.A Soon, with the help of Moose Lake volunteers, the site will be brimming with festively wrapped shoe boxes full of gifts.

Thousands had gathered under the shade of the trees by the airstrip in Akobo, waiting for the arrival of a United Nations helicopter packed with food aid.

Body photo: Seyoum Tesfaye The news blackout on the drought/famine situation reportedly afflicting millions of Eritreans has frustrated both emergency aid agencies and press and human rights advocates.

As North Korea began gingerly to open its doors to Westerners during the terrible famine of the 1990s, a foreign aid worker remarked that when it came to understanding life in that isolated country, many "have snapshots, nobody has seen the movie." Barbara Demick, a longtime correspondent in Asia for the Los Angeles Times, has written a book that ...

Save the Children urges world leaders at talks in Barcelona to prioritise effects of droughts, cyclones and floods on children Press Association guardian.co.uk , Monday 2 November 2009 12.01 GMT Desperate plight a A child waits at a food centre in southern Ethiopia.

Communism: Started where faith ended. Posted Monday, November 2, 2009, at 7:44 AM << Previous Read comments Respond From Museum of Communism The foundation of Communism was built with the bitterness of men who had lost their faith in God.

When 64-year-old Jimale Irobe was a young man, he guided his herds of cows and camels through knee-high grass.

The food crisis that is threatening to leave millions of Zimbabweans once again facing severe hunger in the coming months is set to worsen, as the countrya s remaining commercial farmers continue to come under both physical and legal attack.

The traditions of Halloween in the United States date back thousands of years to the ancient Celts.

Before the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the National Islamic Front regime and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement , death was a daily reality in South Sudan.

NILPHAMARI: The villagers of Laxmichap under Nilphamari sadar are over the moon unlike the time in the past when Monga cast the long dark shadows of suffering with wholesale unemployment and mass exodus to towns turning the village into a bleak landscape.

The international community can avert a crisis in Ethiopia by quickly giving the African country the emergency aid it says it needs to feed 6.2 million people, one of Britain's top diplomats said on Thursday.

Farming represents the biggest change of all sectors covered by the Government's amended Emissions Trading Scheme, says the Taranaki Regional Council's director of environment quality Gary Bedford.

Can climate bill be sold as national security? Senate hearing gets warming warnings from defense world The U.S. military airfield on Diego Garcia, an island in the IndianA Ocean,A is one of many areas vulnerable to rising seas.

Band Aid founder Midge Ure has warned Ethiopia faces a new famine which could rival the horrors of the past.

In this week's issue, Barbara Demick writes about Song Hee-suk , a North Korean woman who struggled through the famine of the nineteen-nineties and defected to South Korea in 2002.

Ethiopia Makes Appeal for Emergency Aid Amid Drought U.S.-backed regime faces worsening crisis ahead of 2010 elections by Abayomi Azikiwe Editor, Pan-African News Wire News Analysis After months of food deficits, deepening political problems domestically and regionally, within the broader context of the world economic crisis, the Ethiopian ...

In this week's issue, Barbara Demick writes about the efforts of a North Korean woman to feed her family during the food shortages of the nineteen-nineties. In the piece, the woman tells Demick that she had been a true believer in the reign of Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il. In 2003, Philip Gourevitch wrote a Letter from Korea about the ...