Global IssuesNews headlines for “World Hunger and Poverty”, page 30
SOMALIA: Massive School Dropouts As Famine Continues
- Inter Press Service
Jamaal Abdi, an eight-year-old boy at the Badbaado camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, would like to have an education. He has his own dreams for the future.
MALAWI: Giving Up on Tobacco
- Inter Press Service
Malawi is reducing the production of tobacco following huge losses by smallholder tobacco farmers and commercial estates trading the crop on the country’s only official tobacco markets, the auction floors.
CUBA: Dreams and Progress in a Rural Community
- Inter Press Service
The day that electricity arrived in the Cuban village of Jova, there were shouts, laughter and tears of joy, even among the most incredulous, who had doubted it was possible. 'I didn’t know what to do; it actually made me nervous,' Carmen Carvallosa confessed.
MOZAMBIQUE: Climate Change Threatens Smallholder Farmers
- Inter Press Service
Long after the wintry sun set over her patch of crops outside the Mozambican capital Angelina Jossefa keeps pulling out weeds. Much of her lettuce, carrots and beetroot died during a cruel winter, which means she has to work harder to feed her three children.
NEPAL: Adapting to Climate Change Can be Simple
- Inter Press Service
Saraswoti Bhetwal’s terraced fields stand out in the sub-Himalayan Lamdihi village as a mosaic of shapes and colours formed by beans, bitter gourd, chilly, tomato, lady’s fingers and other crops.
SOMALIA: Capital City Still in Need of Thousands of Tonnes of Aid
- Inter Press Service
The shelling and gunshots, once a common sound in Mogadishu, no longer ring out in the city’s streets. The surprise withdrawal on Aug. 6 of the Islamist extremist group Al Shabaab from their stronghold in Mogadishu has meant that people now move about the city, for the first time in two years, without fear of constant attack.
NAMBIA: No Option but to Adapt to a Changing Climate
- Inter Press Service
Extreme weather conditions predicted because of climate change in Namibia are likely to have a tremendous effect on the 70 percent of the country’s people who live in rural areas and depend heavily on agriculture.
School Gardens Promote Learning While Fighting Hunger
- Inter Press Service
'Yesterday I planted 20 broccoli plants at home. God willing, they will grow and we will be able to eat them,' said 12-year-old Juan Francisco Ordóñez, a student at a school in San Cristóbal Totonicapán where a school garden has been established in an attempt to alleviate hunger.
HORN OF AFRICA: U.N. Shares Responsibility in Famine, Experts Say
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations Human Rights Council should accept responsibility, on behalf of the world forum, for the famine spreading through eastern Africa, and should call for member countries' cooperation to overcome the desperate food crisis there, experts said.
Somali Women Bear Superhuman Burden
- Inter Press Service
While the exit of the Al-Qaeda-backed rebel group Al Shabaab has led to the first U.N. relief airlift in five years in the capital of famine-wracked Somalia, the situation for women and children remains precarious, humanitarian workers warn.
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