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Suhani Bunglani fans flies away from her two baby girls as one sleeps motionless while the other stares without blinking at the roof of their tent, her empty belly...
made popular Sep 20 2010
Although there are signs of improvement in Niger, which is in the midst of a severe food crisis, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that child...
made popular Sep 18 2010
For the first time in 15 years, the number of hungry people in the world has declined. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 925 million...
made popular Sep 15 2010
A desperate picture of the health of North Korea’s population is painted by a report describing a country of stunted children, where the hungry eat poisonous...
made popular Jul 15 2010
Only five years after a severe food shortage north-central Africa is again fearing the worst before the September harvest, with 10 million people threatened in this...
made popular Jun 11 2010
A severe drought is causing increasing hunger across the Eastern Sahel in west Africa, affecting 10 million people in four countries, aid agencies warned today. In...
made popular Jun 4 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Dear friends,
I was in Hyderabad, India, from May through December, 2009. I returned to the US for January through March, and by April 2nd...
made popular Apr 26 2010
For us it is a saddening sight - a magnificent bull elephant struck down in his old age.
But for the starving of Zimbabwe, it was little short of a miracle.
The...
made popular Mar 12 2010
I had a flashback the other day when I was looking at photographs from Haiti of 15-year-old Fabianne Geismar, shot dead in the head after stealing wall hangings from a...
made popular Feb 24 2010
The number of people needing food aid in south Sudan has quadrupled in a year to more than four million, the UN’s World Food Programme says.
The WFP wants to...
made popular Feb 3 2010
People are starving in Somalia and thanks to the Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab, those living in the south, where al-Shabaab rules, they will continue to do so....
made popular Jan 6 2010
While international forces in Afghanistan battle militants hiding in the mountains, aid agencies are fighting an even more elusive enemy: malnutrition.
The World Food...
made popular Dec 22 2009
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...
made popular Dec 5 2009
The Kenya Meteorological Society says rains have ended the country’s long drought but aid officials warn that millions of hungry people still need food...
made popular Oct 26 2009
We claim to have defeated the darkness of slavery and boast of our development every now and then. The present Government’s claims of providing basic facilities and...
made popular Sep 15 2009
Persistent violence and a prolonged drought have plunged Somalia into its worst humanitarian crisis since civil war erupted two decades ago, with a third of its 10...
made popular Aug 26 2009
Across East Africa, drought is again leaving millions of people in dusty countryside hungry, thirsty and dangerously dependent on food aid, the United Nations has...
made popular Aug 22 2009
In the dark of night as is the underbelly of New Zealand those impoverished with poor wages, poverty, children going hungry, job losses in a country rich with...
made popular Aug 17 2009
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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...
made popular Jul 14 2009
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...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Millions of people in East Africa face climate-related hunger as seasons shift and change, a new report published by aid agency Oxfam International said on Monday.
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made popular Jul 6 2009
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...
made popular May 25 2009
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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...
made popular May 11 2009
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...
made popular Jan 16 2009
“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...
made popular Jan 14 2009
“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...
made popular Nov 28 2008
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...
made popular Oct 13 2008
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...
made popular Oct 10 2008
Colombians live in a country that has many resources to produce food. We have plenty of water, the possibility of having all sorts of crops and a variety of animals...
made popular Oct 1 2008
Whatever happens with the ongoing negotiation impasse in Zimbabwe, there are social realities that no agreement will be able to reconcile. Even if the process of...
made popular Oct 1 2008
Children in Zimbabwe are eating rats and inedible roots riddled with toxic parasites to stave off hunger because of chronic food shortages, an aid agency said on...
made popular Sep 27 2008
People in the world interested in geopolitical history know that We must understand that the superficial depiction of Islam in the west is mainly propaganda. Propaganda...
made popular Aug 26 2008
A day after Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Britain not to waste food, a disgusted British press dished out in great detail - with liberal servings of irony - the...
made popular Jul 8 2008
Pakistan is an agriculture based country with most of its population living in rural areas practicing agriculture, yet it is one of the many developing nations facing a...
made popular Jul 6 2008
It seems that just thinking about your own death can make you reach for the cookie jar, with an international study finding that morbid thoughts tend to whet the...
made popular Jun 25 2008
High levels of the “hunger hormone” ghrelin have an antidepressant effect, US researchers claim. Blocking the body’s response to ghrelin has been...
made popular Jun 16 2008
This is too good not to pass on to you. It made my day and is keeping me from going to sleep. Imagine we finally allow hungry people in Africa to be fed using food...
made popular Jun 14 2008
Scientists are finding that the same chemical in your stomach that causes hunger also changes how your brain perceives food, as this ScienCentral News video explains.
made popular May 23 2008
Canada is a great place to live; we have an abundance of resources, high paying jobs, in comparison to most of the world, a relatively peaceful way of life with little...
made popular May 5 2008
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An unidentified Shiite Muslim cleric participating in a hunger strike holds a flower Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009, given by a young wellwisher in Nuweidrat, Bahrain. Several Bahraini Shiite opposition leaders are in the fifth day of a hunger strike that comes..
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