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BBC
| almost 2 years ago
Anecdotal evidence suggests al-Shabab is now seriously short of money, more divided than ever, and many of the foreign jihadist fighters who came to join it have left the country for other struggles. Mr Ibrahim said that food aid was mostly needed in...
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The Globe & Mail
| almost 2 years ago
Emergency food centres in drought-stricken eastern Africa are overwhelmed by thousands of starving people every day and mothers are forced to abandon their dead or dying children by the roadside, aid officials said on Monday. Josette Sheeran,...
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Reuters
| almost 2 years ago
An internally displaced woman holds her malnourished son at the Banadir hospital in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, July 22, 2011. Emergency food centers in drought-stricken eastern Africa are overwhelmed by thousands of starving people every day and...
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Bloomfield Life
| almost 2 years ago
Efforts to save starving Somalis and others suffering from drought in East Africa were ratcheted up Monday, with U.N. agencies pitching for $1.6 billion from donor countries and private companies being urged to provide trucks, ships and other...
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DAWN
| almost 2 years ago
The worst drought in 60 years over the last few months killed tens of thousands of people, forcing desperate survivors to walk for weeks in search of food and water. People who can barely stay on their feet due to hunger, walk for days or even weeks...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| almost 2 years ago
Ban Ki-moon July 26, 2011 Opinion "The compassionate impluse to help our fellow human beings has never wavered" .....Photo: Reuters Across the Horn of Africa, people are starving. A catastrophic combination of conflict, high food prices and drought...
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Canadian Free Press
| almost 2 years ago
Jim Kouri Monday, July 25, 2011 One of them said how she left her sick child on the road because he was too weak to make the journey to Kenya...Somalia's terror group Al Shabaab has reneged on lifting its ban on aid agencies and has accused those,...
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IRIN
| almost 2 years ago
The ministry is focusing on the children under five as most of them are suffering from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, malnutrition, etc."...The agency said access to food for these populations should be scaled up immediately...Across Somalia,...
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Africa Headlines
| almost 2 years ago
Planes From Kuwait Carrying Humanitarian Aid Arrive At Mogadishu 22 July 2011 Mogadishu Two planes from the Kuwaiti government and carrying humanitarian aid on Friday arrived at the seaside Mogadishu amid devastating drought and famine in the horn of...
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SwissInfo
| almost 2 years ago
Mohamed Cherif in Geneva , swissinfo.ch Somalia's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva has sounded the alarm over the desperate food shortage in his country, where famine has been declared in the south. For several years, Yusuf Muhammad Isma'il...
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The Guardian
| almost 2 years ago
Two children who have fled from the famine in Somalia look out from their tent in the Dagahaley refugee camp in Kenya. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images The vast majority of people in insurgent-controlled areas of Somalia may starve to death unless...
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Africa Headlines
| almost 2 years ago
WFP Delegation Arrives At Central Town 24 July 2011 Mogadishu World Food Program (WFP) delegation led by agency's executive director Josette Sheeran on Sunday arrived at Galka'yo, a town in central Somalia to study the humanitarian situation there.
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News 24
| almost 2 years ago
A catastrophic drought in the Horn of Africa demands "massive and urgent" action from the international community, the UN food agency's chief said on Monday as emergency talks opened on the crisis. The worst drought in 60 years has wreaked havoc on...
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Al Jazeera
| almost 2 years ago
51 As the drought crisis deepens in the Horn of Africa the UN's food agency is holding emergency talks in Rome. At the top of the agenda will be plans to ensure food packages and aid is delivered into Somalia, which is affected most by the drought.
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Voice of America
| almost 2 years ago
The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization says the meeting in Rome will include ministers and senior representatives of its member countries, as well aid groups and regional development banks. The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought...
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The Economic Times
| almost 2 years ago
TheWorld Bank on Monday pledged more than $500 million (348 million euros) to aid the drought-strickenHorn of Africa region, asUnited Nations aid chiefs met in Rome to discuss ramping up relief efforts. The bulk of the money will go towards long-term...
