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African child. AP Photo/ Rebecca Blackwell


International Call to Face Famine in Africa

International Call to Face Famine in Africa

New York – United Nations aid agencies and donor countries gathered in Oslo Thursday for a two-day meeting to raise emergency aid for millions of people threatened by famine in several countries in Africa. The U.N. aims to collect up to $1.5 billion in commitments...
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A mother breastfeeds her child who suffers acute malnutrition, at the clinic run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Aweil, northern Bahr al-Ghazal, South Sudan. By Albert Gonzalez Farran (AFP/File)


U.N. Declares Famine in South Sudan

U.N. Declares Famine in South Sudan

London – South Sudan government and three U.N. agencies declared more than 100,000 people in two counties of unity state are experiencing famine. They said the disaster is the result of prolonged civil war and an entrenched economic crisis that has devastated the...
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Yemeni Central Bank building.


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Residents who say they have received permission from the Syrian government to leave the besieged town, depart after an aid convoy entered Madaya, Syria, January 11, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki