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| World Faces Worst Humanitarian Crisis Since WWII |
| 2017-03-12 |
| [An Nahar] The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... is warning that the world is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II, with more than 20 million people facing starvation and famine in four countries. Not that it has a thing to do with religion, mind you. The world body's humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien called Friday for an urgent mobilization of funds -- $4.4 billion by July -- for northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... to "avert a catastrophe." "Otherwise, many people will predictably die from hunger, livelihoods will be lost and political gains that have been hardwon over the last few years will be reversed," O'Brien said in his stark warning to the UN Security Council. "Without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death. Many more will suffer and die from disease. Children stunted and out of school. Livelihoods, futures and hope will be lost." He called war-wracked Yemen "the largest humanitarian crisis in the world," with two thirds of the population, or 18.8 million people -- three million more than in January -- in need of assistance and more than seven million with no regular access to food. The conflict in Yemen has left more than 7,400 people dead and 40,000 maimed since an Arab-state coalition intervened on the government's side against rebels in March 2015, according to UN figures. In just the past two months alone, more than 48,000 people have fled fighting in the Arab world's poorest country, according to O'Brien, as it grapples with a proxy war fought by archrivals Iran and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 "Your rice-burning Red is peculiar: As nice as us smarties at school (durr!). He led us by nostrils To rad party hostels... How spicy the Mao and chow fun were!" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-12 23:10 |
| #14 Proportionately speaking. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-03-12 20:14 |
| #13 Cambodia under the KR? |
| Posted by: charger 2017-03-12 20:14 |
| #12 As I understand it, the butchery is actually real - a consequence of arming tribesmen with modern weapons. But, my point, this is all part of the UN business. No doubt, there are - lets call them branch managers - who dream of turning their particular branch into as successful a business as UNRWA. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-12 18:12 |
| #11 g(r)omgoru, Yeah that too but this South Sudan issue is starting to sound like the UN's version of "The Russians hacked the election" |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-03-12 17:57 |
| #10 Without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death. That would be the optimal outcome. The alternative is to either feed them in perpetuity, thereby encouraging them to have even more babies or take large numbers of them in as refugees, thereby encouraging the remainder to have even more babies. No thanks. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-03-12 16:13 |
| #9 How much money and food has the UN dumped into these pestholes only to see the money used to buy weapons and ammunition and the food either used by the local Moslem thugs, burned or allowed to rot? Wrong question SPOD. The right question is how much of that money the UN bureaucrats spend on themselves? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-12 13:18 |
| #8 The South Sudan fiasco has been on going for over twenty years. The solution in the South Sudan is to do a POW snatch and drag Bashir into a court room somewhere. Otherwise, the UN plan just calls more many more tons of food to rot in warehouses and on piers because the combatants can't agree on allowing the distribution of food to the civilians... How much money and food has the UN dumped into these pestholes only to see the money used to buy weapons and ammunition and the food either used by the local Moslem thugs, burned or allowed to rot? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-03-12 13:14 |
| #7 northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen What they need isn't food or money, it's MOAR ISLAMâ„¢ |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-03-12 12:37 |
| #6 They need more money from liberal nations. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-03-12 12:21 |
| #5 pouring nutrients into a series of terrorism Petri dishes makes sense for what reason? Because it's UN's business? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-12 12:03 |
| #4 Putting aside the emotions for a moment, pouring nutrients into a series of terrorism Petri dishes makes sense for what reason? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2017-03-12 11:18 |
| #3 Not even close. And it is all self inflicted with these idiots. Actions have consequences and this is one of them. Enjoy your inshallah existence. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-03-12 09:49 |
| #2 Ah, but that was done by the inscrutable Chinee. And they're Communist Chinee, to boot. /Western Liberalism |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-03-12 08:32 |
| #1 If true this would be bad, but it would not be the worst crisis since WWII. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2017-03-12 05:07 |