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Made Popular Dec 5 2009
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The money ran out first. Then the food.

Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to find a job, no effort to scrounge up a meal, her kids told a jury yesterday.

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The Israeli government is seeking to force Palestinians onto a dietary plan. Since 2006, 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza have been blockaded into an open-air prison...
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Dressed in white or yellow T-shirts and black slacks, the dozens of people at Wednesday’s ceremony looked like typical South Korean company trainees. But the high...
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Anthony, Kampala
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The Kremlin’s worst fears are being played out in a small town outside St Petersburg, as angry residents of crisis-hit Pikalevo marched upon the offices of the...
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Photo by mst7022, Flickr creative commons For many in the village of Mondul 3 in Siem Reap Cambodia poverty is a way of life, for Sov Soparath this poverty ended in...
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Rose Ng'ang'a, Nairobi
Ten million Kenyans are facing starvation but all our politicians can do is heighten their blame games as the situation deteriorates. When the post election violence...
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“Please give me some food”, a desperate plea from a starving 17 year old Sarat, an inmate of Jatiya Jaradhi Sansad, an orphanage for the mentally challenged...
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Lydiah Wakarindi, Nairobi
“I put a lot of salt in the vegetables when I am cooking to limit my children from eating a lot.” These are the words of a woman trying to feed her...
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Sanwali, Shimla
For over eight years, Cathy Buckle has been courageously blogging from inside Zimbabwe as it has descended into a lawless state run by murderous gangsters calling...
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Provimar, Caracas
Emergency airlifts of food, clothing and medicines from Mexico, Venezuela and Russia reveal a humanitarian crisis in Cuba that is unprecedented in scope.Five weeks...
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Apr 25 2009 by AP0 Comments

Phetsile Ndwandwe, short, skinny and 23 years old, accepts an apple from a development worker and nibbles at it, stripping the peel with her teeth before handing the fruit to Siphokazi, her baby daughter.

 
 
Mar 18 2009 by AP0 Comments

The U.S. is turning down a Guantanamo prisoner’s offer to end his long hunger strike in exchange for better conditions at the American prison in Cuba.

 
 
Feb 28 2009 by AP0 Comments

An office party goes on without her, across town in an affluent world vastly different from the one where Mariana Chilton now finds herself. Her husband’s tried calling. Twice.

 
 
Feb 10 2009 by AP0 Comments

“The Soloist,” the upcoming movie about a cellist who became homeless, has struck a chord with American orchestras. They are mobilizing to help feed the hungry.

 
 
Jan 29 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Connecticut judge is hearing arguments on whether state prison officials can force-feed an inmate on a hunger strike.

 
 
Jan 26 2009 by AP0 Comments

The United Nations urged donors Monday to release quickly billions of dollars in aid pledged at a food crisis summit last year after riots in developing countries over soaring prices.

 
 
Jan 24 2009 by AP0 Comments

Dozens of Guantanamo Bay prisoners were still on hunger strike Friday despite President Barack Obama’s order to close the prison.

 
 
Jan 16 2009 by AP0 Comments

The U.N. World Food Program says more than 150,000 people are still surviving on donated food in the flood-battered city of Gonaives.

 
 
Jan 9 2009 by AP0 Comments

Ten million people risk going hungry in Kenya after harvests failed because of drought, the government said Friday.

 
 
Jan 8 2009 by AP0 Comments

The long-running hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has grown to 30 prisoners, the highest number in months.

 
 
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