Maybe I should forgo it in the name of Ramadan (which, if you've followed my coverage, has receded down the memory hole):
"UN asks for billions to avert four hunger crises, but the money doesn’t arrive" by Kevin Sieff Washington Post June 03, 2017
NAIROBI — At the beginning of this year, the United Nations made one of its boldest requests ever for funding. It said it needed billions of dollars to fund hunger programs in four countries or as many as 20 million people might starve to death.
Maybe you could invite some of them over for lunch?
Have you seen their spread?
Five months later, the results of that appeal are dismal. The United Nations has raised about a third of its goal, and there’s little reason to believe much more is coming.
The funding is for four countries facing massive hunger crises: South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, and Yemen. Of the $6.1 billion requested for those countries, only $2.2 billion, or 36 percent, has been pledged.
All the places where the U.S. has brought conflict and its GWOT.
Btw, on the front of my paper today is an article covering the $1 trillion -- yeah, trillion with a T -- U.S. nuclear upgrade.
I only mention it because, you know, the very entities making the appeals regarding these crises and claiming how much they care are the same ones controlling the pur$e $trings.
Pretty tough to choke down, huh?
In each crisis, according to aid officials, the lack of funding has led to a reduction in food assistance for those in need. It remains unclear how many lives have been lost because of the lack of funding, but the United Nations has recently unveiled stark statistics about the unmet need.
Recently, Secretary General António Guterres warned that a Yemeni child dies every 10 minutes of preventable causes such as conflict, hunger, and disease. UNICEF has said that more than 275,000 children across Somalia are facing severe malnutrition.
Could be their last supper, and on Somalia I'm rather current. In fact, I have my eye on another African post or two soon.
In South Sudan, the United Nations says that 2,800 people are fleeing worsening violence and looming famine every day.
Sudan, same thing.
‘‘It means, quite simply, that large numbers of people, particularly children, will suffer and die,’’ said Andrea Tamburini, chief executive of Action Against Hunger.
That's all well and good that the U.N. cares about the kids. Now if could only shut down the sex abuses rings reign in its war criminal members and their bomb-dropping. That would go a long way to solving these problems.
The funding shortfall comes at a particularly troubling time, with some regions in the affected countries about to enter the ‘‘lean season,’’ as families exhaust their last reserves from the previous harvest.
Of the four crises, the United Nations’ biggest shortfalls are in Nigeria, where only 28 percent of $1.05 billion requested has been raised, and in Yemen, where 23.7 percent of the $2.1 billion appeal has been funded.
That funding gap is already being felt in northeastern Nigeria, where 1.8 million people are in need of food assistance, many of them living in makeshift displacement camps in bombed-out cities, often inaccessible by road, particularly during the coming rainy season.
Nigeria is interesting because there hasn't been much since I caught up.
In the absence of funding, the World Food Program this month had to abandon its plans to feed about 500,000 of the nearly 2 million in need, instead focusing on the most urgent cases.
‘‘When you can no longer feed, say, all malnourished children in a certain age group in a given area, you operate a form of triage. It is a moral wrench to do this, but we don’t have much choice,’’ said Andre Vornic, a spokesman in the organization’s Rome headquarters.
In Nigeria, the United Nations has also been unable to provide thousands of people with 15 liters of clean water per day — seen by many in the humanitarian community as a basic standard for survival.
Then what good is government or the globalist entity, really?
Raising funds for hunger crises, particularly in Africa, is never easy. In 2011, the United Nations struggled to galvanize donors during a famine in East Africa. In Somalia alone, 260,000 people died during that crisis, though a lack of funding wasn’t the only reason for that massive loss of life.
Sure seem to get into wars easy enough.
The international community’s response had been slow even before the fund-raising appeal began, and aid delivery had been complicated by al-Shabab militants.
Because they don't really care despite the flowery speeches as the greenhouse gas their way across the planet.
Many in the aid community worried that the Trump administration’s budget, which proposed massive cuts to foreign aid, would be disastrous for the international humanitarian response. But so far, the United States is still donating more than other nations in many cases.
What about the last guy? Where was he as all this was building? Didn't want to get involved at the end of his term? But know he needs to issue a statement on the climate change move? $cum.
In Nigeria, the United States is contributing $25 million to the World Food Program budget this year, three times as much as Canada, the next-largest donor.
You know we have hungry people here, too. They are families, homeless, and students in dorm rooms.
Look, life is good if you are in the privileged and elite cla$$ or are one of the servants. It's a richer's age.
Some aid officials have said privately that they believe donors have declined to contribute to Nigeria’s humanitarian package because they consider the country to be relatively wealthy and capable of contributing more to its own crisis.
It sits on gobs of oil, and even thought they have a Valdez-type spill every year they are like the 3rd largest producer in the world. Who knew?
Nigeria is the biggest economy in Africa with the biggest population: roughly 180 million people. Its government has largely played down the scale of the humanitarian disaster in the northeast.
It's a knee-jerk reaction for all governments. Self-preservation and public image first.
In South Sudan, UN officials have emphasized the urgency of assisting farmers ahead of the rainy season. But, as of now, no seeds have been distributed.
In Yemen, where 17 million people are considered ‘‘food insecure,’’ according to Tamburini at Action Against Hunger, ‘‘the humanitarian community is only reaching 4 million each month just because of a lack of resources.’’
You can thank Saudi blockades for that -- and Trump just lavished $100 billion in weapons on that head-chopping funder of terror.
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Yemen has more to worry about than just hunger:
"A cholera outbreak is spreading quickly in war-ravaged Yemen, with an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 new cases every day, the UN children’s agency said Saturday. UNICEF officials said 70,000 cases of cholera have been reported in the past month (AP)."
Better be careful or they will surpass Haiti as the current cholera king.
Also see:
"Indian officials have acknowledged that three cases of Zika virus were discovered in the country beginning last fall, but the public was not notified until last week. Officials in Ahmedabad, India, saw the first case in November. They fumigated neighborhoods and found two more cases in the next two months. The World Health Organization said last week that it had received reports about them (New York Times)."
The WHO, huh?
It's the vaccines, folks, not the skeeters. They are what you call a cover, although messing with their DNA can't be good.
Do you have any idea how much food is thrown into the garbage?
