WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday described the drought and famine threatening more than 12 million Africans as a stark reminder of the need to invest in global agriculture and nutrition. In a speech at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Clinton announced that the United States was providing another $17 million in emergency food aid to the Horn of Africa, with $12 million going to humanitarian operations in Somalia. That brings total U.S. assistance to the region to more than $580 million this year.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The United States has thrown a lifeline to six southern African countries, donating food aid valued at $45 million, the U.N. food agency said Thursday. The 94,000-ton donation brings the U.S. government's total food contribution for the year to $150 million, the World Food Program said.
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Nations officially declared a famine in East Africa. Verizon Wireless has quickly implemented a mobile giving program for customers looking for a simple way to contribute to relief efforts in East Africa. The company said today that customers can use their mobile phones to make $10 donations to a variety of nonprofit organizations responding to the famine and the millions of people in need of food aid - including UNICEF, World Vision and International Rescue Committee. When the U.N. declared a famine in East Africa, we knew that our innovative technology could help make a difference. We quickly took action and set up this mobile giving campaign, offering our customers an easy and secure way to get involved in the relief effo...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - As Venezuela lobbies for a U.N. Security Council seat, President Hugo Chavez has bolstered its chances by spreading petrodollars across the Americas and beyond - extending an airstrip on a Caribbean island, sending emergency food aid to Africa, fixing a rundown hospital in Uruguay. Chavez's international support will be put to the test Monday, as Venezuela goes up against U.S.-backed Guatemala in a General Assembly vote. At the same time, Chavez is confronting accusations at home that his generosity has been excessive, and has argued it's a modest amount of aid for nations he sees as suffering from U.S. domination.
News Advisory: Recent headlines have brought to the world's attention the desperate need for food aid in Sudan and the Horn of Africa. The World Food Program has announced that it must cut in half the amount of food that it is currently distributing to three million people affected by the conflict in Darfur in western Sudan. In addition, approximately 7 to 8 million people who earn their livelihoods by relying on grazing lands for their livestock in the Horn of Africa are facing a severe drought. The United States will give $1.7 billion in food aid in FY 2006, and the President has proposed an additional $350 million for emergency food aid, mainly for Africa, in an FY 2006 Supplemental Appropriation request. The amount of food aid currently anticipated for FY 2007 is almost $1.5 bil...
DAKAR, Senegal - Niger is now facing the worst hunger crisis in its history, with almost half the country's population in desperate need of food and up to one in six children suffering from acute malnutrition, aid officials say. Malek Triki, West Africa spokesman for the United Nations' World Food Programme, said villagers in Niger are describing the situation as worse than in 2005, when aid organizations treated tens of thousands of children for malnutrition, and worse even than 1973, when thousands died.
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Parents in some of Africa's poorest countries are cutting back on school, clothes and basic medical care just to give their children a meal once a day, experts say. Still, it is not enough. A record 1 billion people worldwide are hungry and a new report says the number will increase if governments do not spend more on agriculture. According to the U.N. food agency, which issued the report, 30 countries now require emergency aid, including 20 in Africa.
... form cannot be part of the solution of the food crisis in Africa. It is part of the problem. Most ...
The delivery of foreign aid in Africa is an enormous challenge, engaging people from all over the world. In most African countries, hundreds of foreigners nals working as doctors, nurses, or technicians - are trying to help Africans better their lives. Their aims are laudable, but their results are often disappointing. Indeed, aid to Africa sometimes worsens situations. Last year's strident call for food donations to starving people in Niger prompted famine relief, which was later blamed for collapsing the prices of food grown by local farmers, ruining many of them. Cultural diversity is alive and well, and failing to acknowledge it carries unintended costs. To complicate matters, not only are there large differences between Africans and Americans, but among Africans themselves. For for...
When HIV/AIDS first began its unrelenting spread through the poor countries of the world, we in the World Food Programme (WFP), like many in the humanitarian community, tended to view the phenomenon as a medical crisis that had little to do with hunger and food aid. No longer. WFP now finds itself on the front lines of this crisis, grappling with a destructive phenomenon that has killed millions of people and rendered millions more dependent on international food aid. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the southern region of Africa, where half of the continent's 30 million HIV/AIDS cases are found.
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