The UN is Warning of a Massive Crisis as Desert Locusts Ravage East Africa Mark Leon Goldberg February 26, 2020Desert locusts are killing crops across East Africa and in so doing, threatening the food supply of millions of people.On Tuesday, three top United Nations officials issued a joint public statement urging g...
Massive swarms of desert locusts are devouring their way through East Africa. The UN is very worried. Joanne Lu February 19, 2020Massive swarms of desert locusts are devouring their way through East Africa and have just made landfall in South Sudan, the country’s agriculture minister announced on Tuesday, sparking fears of a severe food ...
The Trump Administration Seeks Massive Cuts to the World Health Organization and UN Peacekeeping. Also, the Total Elimination of Funding for UNICEF Mark Leon Goldberg February 11, 2020The budget request released this week by the White House recommends large cuts to US payments to several United Nations entities. This includes a 53% cut to the World Health Organization, which is at the front ...
There Has Been a Staggering Increase in Hunger in the Sahel Region. Violence and Climate Change are to Blame Joanne Lu February 5, 2020While the world’s attention is turned to the coronavirus outbreak, three UN agencies warned on Tuesday about another crisis that has been looming in the background: an alarming hunger spike in Burkina Faso, Mal...
A Key UN Committee Ruled that Climate Refugees Deserve Special Protection. Here’s Why That Matters Mark Leon Goldberg February 4, 2020 This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.Yvonne Su, University of GuelphThe recent ruling by a United Nations committee that govern...
How Diplomacy Can Save the Nile River Mark Leon Goldberg January 28, 2020Ed note. This first appeared in The ConversationMahemud Tekuya, University of the PacificEthiopia, Sudan and Egypt are a step closer to resolving their disputes over the filling and operation of the Gra...
How Multilateral Cooperation Can Stop the Coronavirus Outbreak From Spreading Mark Leon Goldberg January 23, 2020According to the latest data from the World Health Organization a new form of coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China has spread to Japan, Thailand, South Korea and most recently, the United States. Some ...
France has a Big Opportunity to Help Stabilize the Sahel Mark Leon Goldberg January 13, 2020Ed note. This is a guest post from Refugees International Senior Advocate for West and Central Africa Alexandra Lamarche Soaring violence and displacement are taking over much of the Sahel. As the situations ...
Getting Humanitarian Relief to Besieged Syrians Is One of the Only Things that Russia and the United States Agrees Upon. Is That About to End? Mark Leon Goldberg January 10, 2020Since the start of conflict in Syria, deep divisions between Russia and the Unites States have stymied the Security Council's ability to engage in meaningful diplomacy to the end the crisis.With the Sec...
