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  • Africa: How to Adapt to Beat Crippling Droughts

    BOTSWANA, 2017/07/17 Right presently, 14 million people across southern Africa face going hungry due to the prolonged drought brought on by the strongest El Niño in 50 years. South Africa will import half of its maize and in Zimbabwe as a lot of as 75 % of crops have been abandoned in the worst-hit areas. With extreme weather, such as failed rains, and drought projected to become additional likely as a result of climate change, some farmers are by presently taking matters into their own hands, and pro-actively diversifying the crops they grow.
  • Africa And Middle East Famines: How China Can Do More

    CHINA, 2017/07/09 The unprecedented outbreak of famine early this year in Africa and the Middle East can be traced to conflict as the root cause. Can China step in to help mitigate the calamity through its Belt and Road initiative? Famine broke out in South Sudan in March 2017. At around the same time, the United Nations announced that Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen were as well on the verge of being hit by long draught, putting around 20 million at risk of starvation. The UN described this as an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and appealed to the international community to donate US$4.4 billion — with little success.
  • Africa: Factbox-World's Major Famines of the Last 100 Years

    BOTSWANA, 2017/03/12 People are currently starving to death in four nations, and 20 million lives are at risk in the next six months The U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday nearly 1.4 million children were at "imminent risk" of death in famines in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Famine was formally declared on Monday in parts of South Sudan, which has been mired in civil war since 2013. People are by presently starving to death in all four nations, and the World Food Programme says additional than 20 million lives are at risk in the next six months. The United Nations defines famine as at the same time as at least 20 % of households in an area face extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 %, and two or additional people per 10,000 are dying per day.
  • Somalia: Antonio Guterres Raises Alarm As Hunger Crisis Worsens

    SOMALIA, 2017/03/12 The UN chief has urged international support to alleviate Somalia's worsening hunger crisis during an emergency visit to the country. Antonio Guterres issued the appeal on Tuesday next witnessing the suffering of malnourished Somalis and cholera victims during his initial field trip since becoming the UN chief. He said the hunger crisis requires a massive response as six million people, or almost half of the people of the Horn of Africa country, need assistance.
  • The federal government of Somalia charge any illegal ships

    SOMALIA, 2013/06/24 The federal government of Somalia has decided to charge heavy amounts on any illegal ships that are found at the nations coastline. This follows as international fishing companies illegally fish at the nations long coastline exploiting resources without seeking permission from the authorities Somalia's mineral resources minister Abdirizak Omar Mohamed who addressed the Somali's parliament warned international fishing companies who trespassed exploiting the nations fisheries.