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'The Real Hunger Games': A Million Children at Risk as Sahel Region Suffers Punishing Drought
World  (tags: world, africa, hunger, drought, Sahel, government, death, children, politics )

Cal
- 16 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The UN warns that a million children in Africa's Sahel region face malnutrition due to drought in region.
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Hunger in Niger Threatens Millions
World  (tags: world, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, hunger, drought, news, children, death, politics, society, Refugees&Relief )

Cal
- 94 days ago - cnn.com
Nearly half of Niger does not have enough to eat. The 5.4 million people struggling to stay alive are part of a wider crisis affecting at least 10 million people across the swath across Africa that borders the Sahara, known as the Sahel.
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NO RELIEF: "A Catastrophic Year" as Hunger Crisis Looms Over Sahel
World  (tags: ecosystems, environment, hunger, world, africa, drought, politics, news, palestine, government, Refugees&Relief )

Cal
- 101 days ago - ipsnews.net
Seven out of the eight governments in the Sahel - the arid zone between the Sahara desert in North Africa and Sudan's Savannas in the south - have taken the unprecedented step of declaring emergencies as 12 million people in the region are threatened by h
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Another Food Crisis Looming in Africa: Nearly 5 Million South Sudanese Lacking Food
World  (tags: South Sudan, world, Refugees&Relief, food crisis, agriculture, drought, politics, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', news )

Cal
- 107 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) have warned that South Sudan is facing a food crisis and that immediate action is needed to stave off a disaster.
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Somalia Famine: "Tens of Thousands Will Have Died," UN Says
World  (tags: world, africa, mass starvation, drought, environment, politics, government, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', society, news )

Cal
- 131 days ago - globalpost.com
A quarter of a million Somalis are still suffering from the famine, and child malnutrition rates remain the highest in the world.
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Drought Will Affect 2 Million Afghans, Aid Groups Say
World  (tags: world, politics, drought, afghanistan, news, asia, Refugees&Relief, government )

Cal
- 189 days ago - globalpost.com
With water shortage creating food and crop shortages, aid groups call for help
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Hungry No More - Petition @ ONE
World  (tags: world, africa, famine, ONE International, Act Now, petition, Bono, drought )

Naoko
- 223 days ago - act.one.org
Drought is an act of nature. Famine is man-made. Let's put an end to famine.
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TAKE ACTION NOW! DROUGHT IS AN ACT OF NATURE---FAMINE IS MAN-MADE!
World  (tags: world, africa, famine, drought, activism, money, politics, politics, news, death, children, Refugees&Relief, interesting, ethics, crime, Refugees&Relief, society )

Cal
- 234 days ago - act.one.org
The famine in Somalia has killed 30,000 children in 3 months. In 2011 we have the opportunity to make famine a thing of the past. Lives are in your hands. Let's put an end to famine in Africa--PLEASE watch the video and SIgn the Petition!
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Somalia: Famine Warning Signs Must Never Again Be Ignored
World  (tags: africa, children, conflict, famine, drought )

Jill
- 239 days ago - allafrica.com
Stressing that the warning signs of impending disaster were evident, but ignored, long before drought and famine began killing tens of thousands of people in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations today swung its support behind a 'Never Again' campaign
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Photos: World Food Program Works to Save Lives in East Africa Famine
World  (tags: world, africa, freedoms, drought, hunger, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', politics, humanrights, interesting, news, goodnews )

Cal
- 271 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Over 12 million people across East Africa are imperiled by a hunger crisis brought on by extreme drought.
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SOMALIA: Famine Spreads: 29,000 Young Children Perish
World  (tags: world, drought, Somalia drought death, children, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', Refugees&Relief, society, news, politics, unitednations )

Cal
- 295 days ago - news.mongabay.com
As the UN announces that famine has spread in Somalia to three additional regions (making five in total now), the US has put the first number to the amount of children under 5 who have so far perished from starvation in the last 90 days: 29,00
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Somalis Flee To Kenyan Refugee Camps
World  (tags: world, africa, Refugees&Relief, drought, Refugees&Relief, politics, news, freedoms )

Cal
- 296 days ago - globalpost.com
Somalian refugees, fleeing the drought, arrived bedraggled, exhausted and often bereaved in Dadaab, Kenya, where an overcrowded complex of camps, built for 90,000, now houses about 400,000 people.
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EAST AFRICA: Massive Aid Needed to Stave Off Disaster
World  (tags: africa, world, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', AFrican drought, drought, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', politics, death, news, Refugees&Relief, society )

Cal
- 305 days ago - ipsnews.net
International donors have given more than one billion dollars to ease the famine in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, but U.N. officials say another billion will be needed to prevent the situation from deteriorating in other areas.
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Somalis Flock By the Thousands to World's Largest Refugee Camp
World  (tags: Refugees&Relief, society, news, drought, weather, DROUGHT, politics, Refugees&Relief, africa, death, world )

Cal
- 311 days ago - cnn.com
For many, their arrival at the Dadaab Refugee Camp marks the end of a trip of many miles on foot over many days in scorching heat. Several people said they had abandoned along the side of the road friends and relatives too weak to continue
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EAST AFRICA: Millions Stare Death in the Face Amidst Ravaging Drought
World  (tags: Refugees&Relief, world, africa, politics, drought, humanrights, government, society, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', unitednations )

Cal
- 312 days ago - ipsnews.net
While Kenya struggles to cope with the influx of refuges fleeing the drought in Somalia, it is estimated that about 1,300 people arrive daily at the Dadaab refugee camp, the country is facing its own crisis of malnutrition and starvation.
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