Originally published on March 2, 2021 1:23 pm
Hunger has been weaponized in the war in Yemen, says a former U.N. official who is currently in the country. We are seeing a relentless countdown to a possible famine that the world hasn t seen since Ethiopia in the 1980s, says Jan Egeland, who is now secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
The need is enormous: Nearly 50,000 Yemenis are already starving to death and 16 million will go hungry this year, according to the United Nations.
The U.N. held a conference Monday to attempt to drum up $3.85 billion in new humanitarian aid. Rich countries cut back on donations last year as the pandemic took hold.
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As Yemenis Starve To Death, Humanitarian Relief Group Pleas For International Help
Hunger has been weaponized in the war in Yemen, says a former U.N. official who is currently in the country. We are seeing a relentless countdown to a possible famine that the world hasn t seen since Ethiopia in the 1980s, says Jan Egeland, who is now secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
The need is enormous: Nearly 50,000 Yemenis are already starving to death and 16 million will go hungry this year, according to the United Nations.
The U.N. held a conference Monday to attempt to drum up $3.85 billion in new humanitarian aid. Rich countries cut back on donations last year as the pandemic took hold.
What s Mine and Yours are two determined and difficult mothers, equal and opposite forces.
There s Jade, whom Coster describes as a woman who is trying to figure out how to pursue her own ambitions while also taking care of a child on her own. And Lacey May, a woman who is struggling financially and trying to secure a future for her girls that she wasn t able to secure for herself.
Their paths cross at a high school auditorium in North Carolina. In fact, at a community meeting about a new integration program, one that will bring students from the largely black east side of town to the largely white high school on the west side, Jade from that east side is fighting to get her son Gee into the school. Lacey May and her daughters live on the West Side, and she s spearheading a campaign to keep the new students out. The two families stories wind together over decades, each of them fighting to overcome shattering loss.
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