By Michael T. Klare / TomDispatchApr 23, 2017
Only concerted action on multiple fronts can prevent the human disasters now unfolding in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen from becoming the global norm. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
By Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanMar 16, 2017
President Trump's response to the most serious humanitarian catastrophe since the end of World War II is to slash aid, bar refugees and expand the military. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Nick Turse / TomDispatchMay 6, 2016
In a place where catastrophic food insecurity may tip into starvation at any time, where armed men still arrive in the night to steal and rape, a local aid worker wants -- seemingly needs -- to know if Donald Trump could actually be elected president of the United States. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
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By Nick Turse, TomDispatchAug 8, 2014
Close your eyes and you could be at a stateside summer barbeque or an office holiday party. Even with them open, the local realities of dirt roads and dirty water, civil war, mass graves, and nightly shoot-to-kill curfews seem foreign. These walls, it turns out, are even higher than they look. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )
By Kieran Cooke, Climate News NetworkDec 20, 2013
Climate change poses a serious threat to farming in East Africa, a region that depends on agriculture and whose population is growing very fast. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Tim Radford, Climate News NetworkSep 2, 2013
Farm crops and some tree species face an increased threat from destructive insects that are migrating to temperate zones to survive in a warming world. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 23, 2011
The World Food Program and other such aid organizations have been unable to reach 2.2 million famine victims in militant-controlled areas of Somalia. In fact, the militant group al-Shabab denies that a famine is happening at all. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 21, 2011
The U.N. on Wednesday declared the first official famine of the 21st century. The designation was applied to war-torn Somalia, where tens of thousands of people -- mostly children -- have died of malnutrition. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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