Africa News
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING ABOUT AFRICA...
None of the stories reported on the nightly news do enough to capture the true gravity of the drought and famine now impacting Africa. Children and families are suffering there, and the situation is quickly becoming catastrophic! Here are just a sample of news items about the drought and the famine it is producing:
At least 3.5 million Kenyans are facing starvation due to the prolonged drought and erratic rains. The figure is an increase from the 2.6 million projected by the government at the beginning of the year.
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With the Supreme Court of Kenya decision to have fresh presidential elections set for October 26th, 2017, it is likely that critical humanitarian assistance will continue to be affected.
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USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) is responding to the complex emergency in the Horn of Africa region, including in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia.
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The crops that 200 million people rely on in Africa are under threat from a caterpillar that is spreading throughout the continent, agriculture experts have warned.
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Drought and famine threaten life for nomadic Somali herders. Twenty million people in the war-torn countries of Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia, as well as drought-stricken neighbors like Ethiopia are at risk.
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As drought grips parts of Kenya, cattle theft has become increasingly violent, with people forced to take refuge from the gun-toting bandits who steal livestock.
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More than 20 million people in four countries are at risk of starvation in the coming months. But the global response to the emergency has been lacking, both from governments and from private citizens.
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It’s shocking that so little heed is being paid to what the United Nations says is the worst humanitarian crisis since 1945. The danger that about 20 million people in four countries will suffer famine in the coming months, and that hundreds of thousands of children will starve to death.
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The number of people severely food insecure is expected to rise further to four million according to UNICEF and FAO estimates that 42 percent of households in Turkana report skipping days without food.
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A Fierce Famine Stalks Africa.
Today six million people are at risk of starvation in Somalia, and another fourteen million in South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen.
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The famines are coming as a drought sweeps across Africa and several different wars seal off extremely needy areas. United Nations officials say they need a huge infusion of cash to respond. So far, they are not just millions of dollars short, but billions.
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Without collective and coordinated global efforts, "people will simply starve to death" and "many more will suffer and die from disease", Stephen O'Brien, the UN under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the Security Council in New York.
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Drought has impacted on education. UNICEF reports that 79,807 children in Somalia are out of school and 175 schools in Ethiopia have closed due to drought.
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Cross Catholic Outreach in partnership with Africa based partners, are sending out urgent calls to assist these communities, suffering in areas of emergency. Together we can equip many families with much needed resources to survive. Let's answer Christ's call to help our brothers and sisters in need. Read more about this project