"The problem is echoed across Africa, from Kenya and Somalia and farther west."
Yeah, but the Zionist-controlled War Daily press is just chock full of "suicide" bombers and "Al-CIA-Duh" every fucking day.
Tired of the blatant agenda-pushing propaganda, folks!!!!
"Hunger spreads to Ethiopia's adults as food crisis worsens; Chronic drought, global food prices deal double blow" by Anita Powell, Associated Press | June 10, 2008
SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia - Like so many other victims of Ethiopia's hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half of what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. His limbs are stick-thin.
But Usheto is not the typical face of Ethiopia's chronic food problems, the scrawny baby or the ailing toddler. At age 55, he is among a growing number of adults and older children - traditionally less-vulnerable groups - who have been stricken by severe hunger due to poor rains and recent crop failure in southern Ethiopia, health workers say.
As if it just that, not a problem or program these shit world leaders have devised.
"To see adults in this condition, it's a very serious situation," Mieke Steenssens, a volunteer nurse with Doctors Without Borders, said as she registered the 5-foot-4 Usheto's weight at just 73 pounds.
Aid groups say the older victims suggest there is an escalation in the crisis in Ethiopia, a country that drew international attention in 1984 when a famine compounded by communist policies killed 1 million people.
Sigh. Yeah, it was the communists who fucked everything up!
If you want to talk about man-made sufferings, how about GAZA, shit MSM?!?
This year's crisis, brought on by a countrywide drought and skyrocketing global food prices, is far less severe.
For now, anyway -- or so the lying, Zionist-controlled media tell us.
But while figures for how many adults and older children are affected are not available, at least four aid groups said they noticed a troubling increase.
"We're overwhelmed," said Margaret Aguirre, a spokeswoman for the International Medical Corps, an aid agency based in Santa Monica, Calif. "There's not enough food and everyone's starving, and that's all there is to it.
"Older children are starting to show the signs of malnutrition when normally they might be able to withstand shocks to the system," she added. "What's particularly concerning is that the moderately malnourished are soaring. It's increasing so much that it means those children are going to slide into severe malnutrition."
But they have enough $$$$ to occupy Somalia!
Ethiopia is not alone in suffering through the worldwide food crisis, which is threatening to push the number of hungry people in the world toward 1 billion. Last week, a UN summit of 181 countries pledged to reduce trade barriers and boost agricultural production to combat rising food prices.
As if the U.N. conference was some sort of success!!!
All they did there was advance more of the same policies that have gotten us into this mess! Almost as if it was part of some plan!
WAKE UP, WORLD!!! Can't you hear your stomaches growling?
But in Ethiopia, food production is hampered by drought, meaning the country has been hit with a double blow. Drought is especially disastrous in Ethiopia because more than 80 percent of people live off the land. Agriculture drives the economy, accounting for half of all domestic production and 85 percent of exports.
Sending more food is one solution, but there already is a global crunch as rising fuel prices drive up the cost of fertilizers, farm vehicle use, and transport of food to market. Biofuels, which are made from crops such as sugar cane and corn, are another contentious issue, with critics saying they compete with food crops.
But ho-hum, according to the MSM. They aren't going to investigate those charges.
The problem is echoed across Africa, from Kenya and Somalia and farther west. Exacerbating the global rise in food prices, which has sparked protests and riots in several West African nations, is an annual decline in food reserves across the high desert-like region called the Sahel, just below the Sahara Desert.
One would think this crisis would make the papers everyday, but.... case closed, readers!
The so-called lean season that begins around June is marked by near-empty grain stores, with the next harvest not due until around September. Locust invasions and poor rains in recent years have only worsened the condition, which leads to deadly malnutrition among young children.
Aid agencies in Ethiopia are issuing desperate appeals for donor funding, saying emergency intervention is not enough. Ethiopia receives more food aid than nearly every other country in the world, most of it from the United States, which has provided $300 million in emergency assistance to relief agencies in the past year.
I'm all for feeding the Ethiopians and anybody else; however, we have hungry people here in America, too.
I know; I'm one of them! Since I cut back to one meal a day I've lost a lot of weight, too!
Of course, we have TRILLIONS for OCCUPATIONS and BILLIONS for BANKS and ISRAEL, but...
But despite the international help, the country is again facing hunger on a mass scale. Part of the reason, according to John Holmes, the top UN humanitarian official, is the country's climate, chronic drought, and the large population of 78 million people.
Yup, anything but the policies put in place by these environment-ravaging, resource-raping globalists!!!!
The UN children's agency has characterized this year's food shortage - in which an estimated 4.5 million people are in need of emergency food aid - as the worst since 2003, when droughts led 13.2 million people to seek such aid. In 2000, more than 10 million needed emergency food.
We all do -- except for the globalist richers!!!!
Studies by the International Medical Corps in southern Ethiopia - the epicenter of the crisis - indicate that up to one in four young mothers is showing signs of moderate malnutrition.
Now I'm getting a bit bothered!
When you DON'T TAKE CARE of MOMMIES and BABIES, yeah, I get ANGRY!!!!!!!!
Our MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCES DESERVE MORE!!!!!!
Ethiopia's top disaster response official, Simon Mechale, insists that the food situation is "under control" and will be resolved within four months. But in the countryside, there are signs that drought has taken a more serious toll.
At a recent food distribution in a village some 155 miles southwest of the capital, more than 4,000 people showed up for free wheat and cooking oil, but only 1,300 rations were available.
A scene coming to AmeriKa soon, just you wait, 'murkns.
Of course, it is a lot easier and cheaper to feed Americans because we eat shit!!!!
Harried health workers picked through the impatient crowd, sorting out the sickest children. Frantic mothers proffered their withered infants, hoping the children's poor state would earn some food for the family.
I really can't take the inhumanity and cruelty when it is TOTALLY UNNECESSARY!!!!!!
Little children should be PLAYING, not WITHERING AWAY!!!!!
Yeah, there are some tears running out my eyes; WHAT OF IT?!
Ayelech Daka said her 6-year-old son, Tariken Lakamu, has been living on one meal a day for the past three months.
"He was very fat three months ago," said his mother, Ayelech said. "He was normal."
Now, he's skin and bones; he vomits just seconds after taking a bite of a ration offered by an aid worker. "I'm weak," the child said. "I feel sick. I don't get any food."Take a look at him:
Tariken Lakamu, 6, has been living on one meal a day. "I'm weak," the child said. "I feel sick. I don't get any food." (Anita Powell/Associated press)
No child should be starving in this world!!!
Yup, we have TRILLIONS for WARS and OCCUPATIONS, BILLIONS for BANKS and BILLIONS for ISRAEL, but we can't feed starving Africans.
Tired of the excuses. Damn TIRED of THEM!!!!
Feed these people NOW!!!!!
