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UN Warns Pandemic-Intensified Famines Are Looming, 'Endangering the Lives of Millions'

Hashem Mahmoud Atin, a 10-month-old displaced Yemeni child suffering from acute malnutrition and who is unable to reach a hospital for treatment, is held by his mother at a camp in Abs in northern Yemen's Hajjah province on September 3, 2020. (Photo: Essa Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images)

'Unimaginable Double Emergency': Record High of Nearly 80 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide Amid Pandemic

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

The United Nations announced Thursday that at least 75.9 million people were forcibly displaced as of the end of last year. (Photo: Houssam Hariri/UNHCR)

"These numbers should serve as a wake-up call to the international community on the human cost of war, and the social and economic implications exacerbated by Covid-19."

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'Unprecedented Threat' for East Africa as Larger Second Wave of Locust Crisis Arrives Amid Pandemic

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Locust nymphs aggregated on the ground at a hatch site near Isiolo town in eastern Kenya on Feb. 25, 2020

As the coronavirus outbreak delays efforts to eradicate the pests, experts warn...

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'A Scourge of Biblical Proportions': UN Leaders Sound Alarm on East Africa Locust Crisis in Call for Global Response

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Locusts swarm from ground vegetation

The worst outbreak in decades has devastated crops across a region already...

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child in school in Yemen

UN Agency Decries 'Shocking Scale' of Attacks on Children in Conflict Zones

Conflicts and Climate Change Fueling Rise in World Hunger

Violence and Persecution Uprooted Record 65.6 Million People in 2016, UN Agency Reports

In a "World of Plenty," G7 Must Fight Famine

From Rio, Olympic Refugee Team Urges Compassion for Displaced People

World on Fire: UN Helpless as Crises Rage in 10 Critical Hot Spots

UN Bodies Sound Alarm on Looming Famine

58 Killed, More Than 100 Injured After UN Base Attacked in South Sudan

UN Shows 'Shocking Indifference' Towards Displaced People: Doctors

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Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Sudan and South Sudan Caucus Statement on UN Sanctions

Oxfam International

One Month After South Sudan Famine Announced, It’s a Race Against the Rains to Save Lives

Doctors Without Borders

MSF to Pull out of World Humanitarian Summit

Amnesty International

South Sudan: Government Must End Arbitrary Detentions by the Intelligence Agency

Committee to Protect Journalists

Bangladesh, South Sudan join CPJ's Global Impunity Index

Center for American Progress (CAP)

Gold from Sudan Fuels Atrocities, Requires Industry Red-Flags and New Sanctions

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Brett Wilkins

For 9th Straight Year, US Grants Waivers to Countries Violating Anti-Child Soldier Law

Christopher Brauchli

Suffer Little Children, We Command You

Nick Turse

The Journalist and the Fixer

Uju Okoye

Nikki Haley’s Trip to Africa Will Be Exercise in Hypocrisy

Kathy Kelly

Violence Spreads the Famine, and the Famine Will Spread Violence

Adam Parsons

It’s Time to Reawaken the Spirit of Occupy for the Starving Millions

Phoebe Wynn-Pope

People Are Looking Death In The Face While We Turn The Other Cheek

Kathy Kelly

Angry, Desperate, Rejected

Patrick Lawrence

Famine Could Kill 20 Million in Africa and Yemen—Why the Deafening Silence?

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan

Facing Famine, 20 Million People Need Food, Not Bombs