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Somalia – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com Connecting To Advance Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:33:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://www.talkafrique.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ta_logo22-150x92.jpg Somalia – TalkAfrique http://www.talkafrique.com 32 32 The F**** Word http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-f-word Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:29:19 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9941 Bono, Lead singer, U2; Co-Founder I’ve been known to drop the occasional expletive, but the most offensive F word to me is not the one that goes f***. It’s F***** — the famine happening in Somalia. Drought, violence and political instability have invited in the grim reaper on a scale we have not seen in …

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]]> Famine in Somalia, by Ban Ki-moon, UN Sec Gen http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/famine-somalia-ban-ki-moon-un-sec-genera Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:57:20 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9596 Across the Horn of Africa, people are starving. A catastrophic combination of conflict, high food prices and drought has left more than 11 million people in desperate need. The United Nations has been sounding the alert for months. We have resisted using the “f-word” — famine — but on Wednesday we officially recognized the fast-evolving …

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]]> SOMALIA’S FAMINE: WAY FORWARD FOR THE AFRICAN CONTINENT http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/somalias-famine-way-for-the-african-continent Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:19:11 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9578 It is no longer making headline news that Somalia, a country located to the east of the African continent is presently besieged by an unprecedented famine in the history of the country. Media reports have confirmed over twenty thousand children dead out of malnutrition and associated aliments. Many residents have been forced to desert the …

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]]> Famine In Africa: Bono, Anderson Cooper, K’naan Call For Famine Solution (VIDEO) http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/famine-somaliaafrica http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/famine-somaliaafrica#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:25:44 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9544 CNN’s Anderson Cooper engaged Bono and Somali singer K’naan in a forthright and passionate conversation this past week about the need for aid in Somalia. Bono, whose foundation ONE tackles health and agriculture issues, says the world needs to find long-term famine solutions. In his conversation with CNN, he said it’s time to take a …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/famine-somaliaafrica/feed 1 The Somalia Debacle http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-somalia-debacle http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-somalia-debacle#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:09:49 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9438 The situation in Somalia calls for reflection. It demands from other African countries, the need to be proactive in their planning process. No one could basically tell why the problem seems a hydra-headed one: from piracy to militancy, kidnapping, insurgency and, now the greatest of all- famine that has been sacking the two regions in …

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/the-somalia-debacle/feed 1 Nurse Struggles to Save Starving Somali Children http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/nurse-struggles-to-save-starving-somali-children http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/nurse-struggles-to-save-starving-somali-children#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:53:29 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9435 Nurse Serat Amin works in the world's largest refugee camp treating the stream of starving children coming into Kenya from famine-struck Somalia, and although he has painful memories of the children who have died, watching the weak get stronger gives him the courage to carry on.

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]]> http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/nurse-struggles-to-save-starving-somali-children/feed 1 East Africa Drought Solution Runs Deep http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/east-africa-drought-solution-runs-deep Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:48:29 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=9432 The East African drought of 2011 that is hitting Kenya and Somalia so hard is also proving to be one of the worst that Ethiopia has faced in 50 years. Currently more than 4.5 million people in Ethiopia alone are facing severe hunger due to the La Niña-induced rainfall shortage. The work that CRS has been carrying out in Ethiopia for more than 50 years is paying off in this drought.

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]]> Somalia on Brink of Humanitarian Disaster Due to Drought, Warns UN expert http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/somalia-on-brink-of-humanitarian-disaster-due-to-drought-warns-un-expert Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:52:43 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=7424 2 March 2011 – A United Nations human rights expert today called on the international community to step up efforts to address the impact of the devastating drought in Somalia, warning that the country is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster if action is not taken immediately. Shamsul Bari, the Independent Expert on the …

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]]> You Cannot Do That in Public http://www.talkafrique.com/issues/you-do-that-in-public Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:11:31 +0000 http://www.talkafrique.com/?p=5642 The Islamist group al-Shabab has barred men and women from shaking hands in public in Jowhar district of Somalia. In addition, men and women who are not related are barred from walking together or chatting in public. Under the law, offenders will be subjected to public flogging as required by Sharia law.

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