Starvation again threatens war-afflicted Yemen, where the U.N. has halved food rations for lack of funding. “If we get the money, we still may have famine,” the head of the U.N. anti-hunger agency said.
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Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus
In 1847 the Choctaw people sent $170 to help during the potato famine. Irish donors are citing that gesture as they help two tribes during the Covid-19 pandemic.
‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms.
The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the end of this year.
‘We’d Prefer the Food’: Zimbabwe Fears a Famine Is in Its Future
Government dysfunction, an economic meltdown, drought and a calamitous flood have plunged Zimbabwe into a hunger crisis.
Xi Extols China’s ‘Red’ Heritage in a Land Haunted by Famine Under Mao
Seventy years after Mao founded the People’s Republic, Xi Jinping visited Xinyang to rekindle revolutionary traditions. Its survivors of mass starvation went unmentioned.
U.N. Aid Chief Warns of Looming ‘Horror’ as Somalia Again Faces Famine
Mark Lowcock, the emergency relief coordinator at the United Nations, said that more than five million people were at risk in the Horn of Africa, mostly Somalis.
U.N. Seeks $4 Billion to Save Millions from Famine in Yemen
Aid workers reached a major grain stockpile near war-torn Hudaydah on Tuesday, amid a United Nations warning that four-fifths of Yemen’s people need relief aid.
U.N. Warns That Grain to Feed Millions Could Rot
The United Nations’ top relief official pleaded for access to a giant grain silo in Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah, saying it could feed 3.7 million hungry people.
Warring Sides in Yemen Agree to Truce in Key Port City
In the biggest step toward peace in years, the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels have agreed to leave Hudaydah, a major conduit for humanitarian aid.
Yemen Peace Talks Begin With Agreement to Free 5,000 Prisoners
The deal between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition is the first of several confidence-building measures that will be required to end the conflict.