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| Africa Horn |
| 10 million threatened by drought and famine in Horn of Africa |
| 2011-06-29 |
| A near-famine has hit the Horn of Africa, where the worst drought in 60 years sparked an extreme food crisis and high malnutrition. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said, "Two consecutive poor rainy seasons have resulted in one of the driest years since 1950-51 in many pastoral zones. There is no likelihood of improvement until 2012." Over 10 million people are affected -- including 117,000 in Djibouti, 3.2 million each in Ethiopia and Kenya, 2.6 in Somalia and 883,000 in Uganda -- and the situation is quickly degenerating. A U.N. "food security" map of the region indicated parts of Kenya and Somalia are one step away from being classified as "catastrophe-famine," the worst category. Over 20,000 famished Somalis have crossed the southwest border into Kenya in the past two weeks. This influx was far greater than last year, when 6,000 to 8,000 Somali refugees crossed into Kenya during a typical month. Acute malnutrition rates among new Somali refugees are as high as 45 percent, "exceeding all emergency thresholds, and death rates are at emergency levels." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #5 Hey, Africans are only allowed to starve under REPUBLICAN presidents. Didn't the reporter get the memo? |
| Posted by: Crolusing Shusoque9230 2011-06-29 21:45 |
| #4 send them Sally Struthers. She could feed a village for several years |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-06-29 21:32 |
| #3 I remember My Mother saying, there are starving Children in Asia that would love to eat your (Brusels sprouts) And I said "Good, send it to them" that was the end of that, that was in 1954 as I remember. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-06-29 21:14 |
| #2 Sorry, but this is really getting old. I remember hearing about the poor starving people of Africa (along with the "starving children in China") when I was a child - and I'm almost 65 years old. It's like the problem can't be fixed. I don't think drought, etc., is the real problem; war-lordery and dictatorship is. We feed the people of Africa so the dictators can use their stolen money to feed their armies. Enough already! >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-06-29 18:23 |
| #1 Sam Kinison, Line One please. |
| Posted by: Pollyandrew 2011-06-29 16:50 |