Map of the Day: In Yemen, a Looming Famine and Current Cholera Outbreak form a Deadly Nexus. Mark Leon Goldberg May 19, 2017 Today's map comes from the European Commission. It shows an alarming cholera outbreak is spreading in Yemen in exactly the same places that are suffering most from food insecurity. To date, there have been over 11,000 cases of cholera detected over the last th...
Map of the Day: Displaced by Drought in Somalia Mark Leon Goldberg May 12, 2017 Somalia is in the midst of its most catastrophic drought since 1950. Some 3.2 million people face emergency levels of food insecurity. And that is causing massive population displacement. Today's map comes from the European Union's Emergency Response Coord...
The World Food Program Needs $961 Million to Avert 20 Million Deaths From Famine Mark Leon Goldberg April 20, 2017 The statistics are only getting worse. Nearly 20 million people across four countries are currently at risk of famine. This includes 1.6 million children who are already considered "severely malnourished." If food does not arrive soon, the numbers of deaths...
A Famine is Never Just a Famine — It’s Political Violence By Starvation. Carol Jean Gallo March 22, 2017 We are entering an age of famine. But the extreme food crises facing South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Northern Nigeria are not solely a consequence of natural disaster or climate change. Rather, people are starving to death because other people with the power ...
The “Four Famines,” Explained Kimberly Curtis March 17, 2017 Hunger will be the humanitarian disaster of 2017. The UN already declared a full fledged famine in parts of South Sudan last month, and three other situations around the world are precariously close to crossing a threshold of food insecurity that leads to fa...
Famine, Explained (VIDEO) Mark Leon Goldberg March 13, 2017 What three conditions trigger the United Nations to declare a "famine?" What causes a famine? And how do you stop a famine? These questions are acute right now as the world faces an unprecedented number of people living in famine or near famine conditions. ...
