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 “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...
Trump seeks deep cuts to UN relief programs, just as 20 million people face famine Mark Leon Goldberg March 14, 2017 In a perfect storm, the Trump administration is reportedly seeking deep cuts to UN relief programs, just as 20 million people face famine. Colum Lynch reports in Foreign Policy that the White House has instructed the State Department and the US Mission to t...
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. ...
6 million people are at risk of starving in East Africa, and climate change deserves part of the blame John Light March 9, 2017 Secretary General António Guterres has spent the last few days in East Africa, visiting nations there that are slammed by drought and facing rising food prices. The drought, he said, looks to be the worst the area has seen in decades — worse even than a 20...
Famine Strikes South Sudan. UN Warns Three Other Countries Could be Next. One of the Biggest Catastrophes of a Generation Mark Leon Goldberg February 23, 2017 Famine kills children first. Famine does not simply mean "lack of food." Rather it is a threshold against which indicators like childhood mortality are measured to determine whether the lack of food is causing people to starve to death in large numbers. Whi...
Here is how the UN is fighting Hunger in Somalia Mark Leon Goldberg November 7, 2016 How the international community saves lives in conflict prone countries or insecure places is becoming increasingly relevant and important to global affairs. With more people displaced around the world than at any time since World War Two there is an urgen...
American Intervention in Somalia Just Got More Fierce Belinda O'Donnell March 10, 2016 United States Special Forces launched a helicopter raid on an Al Shabaab controlled-town on Tuesday, just days after a US airstrike killed 150 suspected Al Shabaab fighters on Saturday. These operations are likely to have caused more fatalities in one week tha...
Will Kenya Shut Down the World’s Largest Refugee Camp? Katherine Edelen April 23, 2015 In the wake of the horrific Garissa University attacks, which took the lives of 148 people, Kenya’s Deputy President delivered an ultimatum to the United Nations Refugee Agency: move nearly half a million Somali refugees out of a huge Kenyan refugee camp in th...
