As you prepare to host the G-8 summit and discuss the security of food supplies with leaders from Africa, we call on you to strongly consider the role of an independent press in identifying and assessing agricultural challenges and famine, and facilitating the national and international response to food crises. | Mr. President, as a central example, we urge you to consider the situation in Ethiopia.
RTÉ's Ray Kennedy reports from the Sahel Saharan region of west Africa as aid agencies race to prevent a famine that could affect 15 million. | Aid agencies are warning that up to 15 million people across the Sahel Saharan region of Africa are at risk of famine unless hundreds of millions of euro in aid is sent urgently. | The food crisis is due to poor harvests and water shortages. | Recent evaluations suggest it could affect more than 15.
NAIROBI, May 17, 2012 (AFP) -- Love-struck teenagers, angry parents, rowing couples: Somali youth tired of seeing their homeland portrayed as a war-torn famine zone have started making films to show a different side to their country. | "The world knows Somalia for war," said Adirahman Ali Suge, a 19-year-old writer and film director, part of a group of refugee Somali film makers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
LOVESTRUCK teenagers, angry parents, rowing couples: Somali youth tired of seeing their homeland portrayed as a war-torn famine zone have started making films to show a different side to their country. "The world knows Somalia for war," says Adirahman...
Staff: A Saudi newspaper on Thursday published a picture of a boy which it said was reduced almost to a skeleton. The boy is not from famine-hit Africa but from Saudi Arabia, the world's oil superpower. | Sabq Arabic language daily did not specify the age of the Salman, who it said has been bed-ridden at a hospital in the southern town of Abha.
With hunger emergencies ongoing in the Sahel region of Africa, as well as Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries, President Barack Obama faces one of his most daunting foreign policy challenges. The President will be making a speech about the global hunger crisis this Friday, May 18, at the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security in Washington D.C. | Obama's speech will be pivotal in rallying support to fight off famine...
The report comes at a time when a severe food shortage is being experienced in Sahel region west of Africa . In 2011 alone, millions of people were similarly struck with the worst famine in the horn of Africa seen in two decades.
The U.S. government and its allies say their interventionist strategy is slowly bolstering security in war-torn, famine-stricken Somalia. | Please enter recipient valid email address. | KAKOLA, UGANDA - The heart of the Obama administration's strategy for fighting Al-Qaida militants in Somalia can be found next to a cow pasture near Kakola, a thousand miles from the front lines.
Why are so many Africans going hungry? | Why is the continent plagued by famines? | Last year some 50,000 to 100,000 people died in the famine that hit Somalia as well as Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Djibouti. | These famines are occuring with regularity because too many Africans are dependent upon subsistence agriculture and are dependent upon natural rainfall and outdated agricultural methods.
15 de mayo de 2012, 12:25Nairobi, May 15 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) warned about the danger of famine in Sub-Saharan Africa , where more than 200 million people suffer the effects of the scourge.
Johannesburg (South Africa) €“ Millions of Angola€™s poorest families are facing critical food insecurity as a prolonged dry spell across large parts of the country has destroyed harvests and killed off livestock. Africa News Update (ANU) | Africa News Update offers news, background and feature articles from African sources two times a week. The newsletter is free of charge and is edited by the Norwegian Council for Africa.
Three decades ago, Bob Geldof and U2's Bono helped draw the world's attention to the famine in Africa . Now, back in Ethiopia, Geldof is still fighting to shed light on the suffering and claims that rich nations are not honoring their pledges to help.
Somali film makers aim to portray 'normal' Somalia than usual television footage dominated by war, rebels, hunger. | Love-struck teenagers, angry parents, rowing couples: Somali youth tired of seeing their homeland portrayed as a war-torn famine zone have started making films to show a different side to their country. | "The world knows Somalia for war,"
The causes of this problem are varied. Climatological conditions have been a big concern of late, explained Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to the UN. | With problems as diverse as these, said UNDP administrator Helen Clark, the solution must be comprehensive.
Sir, – Your report of Enda Kenny's passionate speech about the legacy of the Great Famine (Home News, May 14th) came just days before the images on our TV screens of the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa . Our legacy – which has seen Ireland...
After spending the last five days with Bob Geldof, I feel that I know his opinion about everything. | His forceful rhetoric - delivered at one hundred miles per an hour and sprinkled with a selection of profanities - is what first helped to make the famine in Ethiopia a global issue during the 1980s. | As we fly to Dollo Ado, a city-sized refugee camp close to the Ethiopia-Somalia border, it becomes clear that his passion has not diminished.
As I write this, a food crisis is also looming in the Sahel region of west Africa , where millions of people, many of them children, are again facing hunger and famine caused by severe drought, food price spikes and the vulnerability of people...
A senior United Nations relief official today urged the international community to build on the effective delivery of aid that helped roll back last year's famine in Somalia, noting that about 2.5 million people in the Horn of Africa country remain in need of humanitarian support. | "We must build on the fragile gains. The number of people who need food aid decreased by 1.5 million, but 2."
NAIROBI, May 14 – Love-struck teenagers, angry parents, rowing couples: Somali youth tired of seeing their homeland portrayed as a war-torn famine zone have started making films to show a different side to their country. “The world knows Somalia...
30 years ago, Bob Geldof and U2's Bono helped draw the world's attention to the famine in Africa . Now, back in Ethiopia, Geldof is still fighting to shed light on the suffering and claims that rich nations are not honoring their pledges to help.
Bob Geldof is known for his pioneering charity work in Africa, and this week ITV News follows the former singer back to Ethiopia, where he has been raising the issue of famine and climate change in the country. | Geldof tells ITV News' Africa Correspondent Rohit Kachroo that the leaders of the G8 meeting later this week are more than capable of ending poverty and that they have failed to adhere to aid targets set in Gleneagles in 2005.
But not all insecure regions, even at this level, can be classified as potential famines due to a lack of food. The international community has been and seems again to be content to provide massive amounts of food aid and deal with the symptoms rather than address the underlying causes of this chronic crisis: lack of community resilience.
NAIROBI - The UN humanitarian agency has called on the world to build on the effective delivery of aid that helped roll back last year's famine in Somalia, where some 2.5 million people remain in need of humanitarian support.
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has issued appeals for an extra $70 million to aid some 800000 households in the drought-hit Sahel region in West Africa . Ethiopia and Somalia are expected to be ground zero for the anticipated famine .