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Even al-Qaeda must be dismayed that it is affiliated with the group – it has been deafeningly silent about al-Shabaab’s handling of the famine.
Will this lead al-Shabaab hardliners to change their behavior, allow food aid to flow unimpeded into southern Somalia, and avert a famine?
I do not want anyone to forget that over less than half of the years contained in the past century—from the outbreak of World War I to the famine that followed Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”—about one in every ten people alive on this planet was shot, gassed, stabbed, burned, or starved to death by his or her fellow human beings.
Two years ago, I warned of a coming famine in Venezuela, akin to Ukraine’s 1932-1933 Holomodor.
The failure of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, immortalized in the book and film A Bridge Too Far, led to famine in the Netherlands in the winter of 1944-1945.
Today’s Venezuelan famine is already worse.
The core insight is that no one can rule out the occurrence of an Old Testament-style event – war, famine, pestilence, or societal collapse.
These and similar efforts can mean the difference between famine and food security, epidemic disease and health, income and utter poverty, and, most importantly, hope and despair.
On the ideological map of the world, it was Soviet territory, a land of famine, dictatorship, and civil war.
By this logic, one could also reclassify the victims of the terror, collectivization, and famine of the 1930’s in order to boost the number of Hitler’s casualties in the USSR.
But there is an older and more ominous parallel between Venezuela and Ukraine: the Soviet Union’s man-made famine of 1933.
A famine in a country as fertile as Ukraine was hard to imagine before it happened.
The humanitarian situation is already dire for 60% of Yemen’s 30 million inhabitants: an estimated seven million people could be close to famine; and almost 500,000 children are at risk of severe malnutrition.
Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine.
This is especially ironic because African countries like Ethiopia stand steadfastly and bravely with the US in the fight for freedom and against terrorism, even as they struggle with hunger, disease, and famine.
It was better to hush up the mass famine that killed 30 million people following the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950's and early 1960's than to seem to be in need of foreign help.
To be sure, their violent history – which has included conquest, colonization, rebellion, and famine – has left deep-seated animosity.
Mao Zedong’s rash decree in 1958 to eliminate China’s “pestilent” sparrows led to the proliferation of grain-eating locusts, diminishing yields and contributing to a famine that led to more than 20 million deaths.
The result was that agricultural labor and resources were rapidly diverted to industry, resulting in a famine that killed tens of millions.
In particular, the UN's involvement in the excessive, unscientific regulation of biotechnology, or genetic modification (GM), will slow agricultural research and development, promote environmental damage, and help to bring famine and water shortages to millions in developing countries.
“First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and, third, it does not mess around with you.
And the scourge of poverty and famine – most vividly urgent today in Somalia – continues to offend the very idea of civilization.
The UN has declared a famine for the first time since 2011, as 20 million people face starvation in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen.
There are still hundreds of thousands of people affected by the drought and famine who require urgent and sustained help, and we must work to prevent such a disaster from recurring.
A 2004 report by the Humanitarian Policy Group cited a survey carried out in Ethiopia after UN agencies said that humanitarian efforts had averted widespread famine in 2000.
Nearly every major society has been shaped by famine; one estimate suggests that China suffered drought or flood-induced starvation in at least one province almost every year from 108 BC to 1911.
Africa must cease being a region to be ransacked, burdened with ill-considered debts by the IMF and World Bank, and so left with institutionalised famine, lawlessness, and horrendus corruption.
They face many challenges – famine, corruption, conflict, lack of access to clean water and education, AIDS, and Ebola – but rapid societal aging is not one of them.
One million people may have died in the North Korean famine of 1995 to 1997.
Now the World Food Program fears that another famine is looming – the country’s agricultural output will likely fall to 1.8 million tons of grain, far short of the 4.8 million tons needed to supply the meagre ration of 7ounces a day (half the daily allowance for those in UN refugee camps) ordinary North Koreans receive.
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