Almost 7.7 million people will be classified as acutely food insecure in the world’s youngest nation as it grapples with floods and war. Almost 60 percent of South Sudan’s population will be acutely food insecure next year, with more than two million children at risk of malnutrition, warns data from a United Nations-backed review. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase …
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Will America's future be one of democracy and women's control over their own bodies or one of authoritarianism and forced pregnancy? "I consider a woman who brings a child every two years as more profitable than the best man of the farm," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1820 of the value of enslaved women. "Question Authority" The 1960s slogan "Question Authority" …
The economic crisis has led to an acute shortage of essential items like food, medicine, cooking gas, fuel and toilet paper, with Sri Lankans being forced to wait in lines for hours outside stores to buy fuel and cooking gas United Nations: Over six million people or over 28 per cent of Sri Lanka’s population are “food insecure” and this …
BHANNINE, Lebanon: It was messy and hectic in Aisha al-Abed’s kitchen, as the first day of Ramadan often is. Of course, I feel defeated.” Ramzan, which began on 13 April, comes as Syrian refugees’ life of displacement has gotten even harder amid their host country Lebanon’s economic woes. “High prices are killing people,” said Raed Mattar, al-Abed’s 24-year-old husband. Even …