Somalia's famine: their agony and our historic part in it
Famine is not remote. Famine is us, our history, our involvement and calls down our duty, writes Jon Snow.
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As ministers meet in Rome to discuss how to get aid to the drought-hit Horn of Africa region, an aid worker in Somalia tells Channel 4 News they should “stop talking and act now” or children will die.
Famine is not remote. Famine is us, our history, our involvement and calls down our duty, writes Jon Snow.
A £52.25m emergency aid package is being put together to help millions of starving people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya hit by Africa’s worst drought in 50 years.
Seven days after the DEC launched its East Africa drought appeal Britons have donated £15m but Channel 4 News asks one charity boss whether news events elsewhere have affected donations.
An aid worker in Somalia, the centre of the East Africa drought crisis which has hit 12m people, tells Channel 4 News he fears “death on an epic, unimaginable scale” if more is not done.
The head of the United Nation’s refugee agency describes the drought in Somalia as the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world and urges Kenya to build more camps, after touring the region.
Channel 4 News’ International Editor Lindsey Hilsum speaks to the “jubilating” crowds celebrating South Sudan’s independence.
Leading aid agencies launch an appeal to help 10 million people in the grip of Africa’s worst drought in decades, as Oxfam tells Channel 4 News soaring local food prices are compounding the crisis.
The hard-line Somali armed group al-Shabaab welcomes “Muslim and non-Muslim” foreign aid groups as the region suffers one of its worst droughts in 60 years.
The head of the UN in Somalia exclusively tells Channel 4 News he is “not sure the population can survive until the end of the year” unless urgent action is taken, amid the worst drought in 20 years.
Is America denying food aid to starving Somalis as part of a strategy to beat the al-Shabaab militants of the Horn of Africa? Jonathan Rugman reports on the agonised food politics of Somalia.
The mass exodus of starving Somali refugees is becoming an unbearable crisis as aid agencies launch an emergency appeal to help millions facing the worst east African drought in decades.
Ten million people across the Horn of Africa are being affected by the worst drought in 60 years. At the world’s largest refugee camp, aid agencies tell Channel 4 News people are facing desperation.
There’s plenty of cows, but no milk industry – Lindsey Hilsum, writing from the southern Sudanese capital, says it’s a sign of the problems Africa’s newest nation will face.
A drought developing across the Horn of Africa is now the worst in 60 years – affecting 10 million people, according to the United Nations.