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Climate Change Threatens Protein Deficiency, Global Famine

by Osama Naaman | Aug 3, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

London – Climate change is draining crops of protein and therefore creating a famine threat around the world, according to two separate studies published on Wednesday. Protein deficiency In a first of its kind step, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,...

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Remember the Population Bomb? It’s Still Ticking

by Eugene Linden | Jun 25, 2017 | Opinion

In tiny Lesotho, a landlocked kingdom in southern Africa, about one-third of its estimated two million people spent much of the past two years in danger of starving because of the lingering effects of a drought. That is just the latest woe afflicting this cursed...

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A Better Way to Help the World

by BOB CORKER and CHRIS COONS | May 13, 2017 | Opinion

The suffering today in northern Uganda and South Sudan should move even the most hardhearted among us. As members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, we often are confronted with the question of how the United States should respond to such crises. We also have...

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Members of the Security Council raise their hand as they vote on the situation in Somalia at the Security Council on March 23, 2017 at UN Headquarters in New York.
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Somali President Pleads to UN for Urgent Aid to Avert Famine

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 25, 2017 | World

United Nations- Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has appealed to the international community for more aid to avert a famine threatening his country that could also undermine fledgling political hopes born in his peaceful election. “Almost half...

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Over Half of Yemen’s Population in Food Crisis

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 16, 2017 | Middle East

Taiz- A UN-backed report on Yemen has found that 60 percent of Yemenis, or 17 million people, are in “crisis” or “emergency” food situations, 20 percent more than in June, saying there was no full-blown famine. The World Food Program said in a...