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Starvation kills millions every year: Climate change & conflict making problem worse
Millions of people die from hunger every year. There are fears that climate change and ongoing conflicts threaten to make the problem worse.
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Millions at risk of famine in Gaza: Lack of food pushing people to brink of starvation
Gaza faces famine with scarce food and aid, blockade damage, and extreme hunger for 500,000.
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Sheshatshiu musician David Hart sings — and explains — his most popular tune
Musician David Hart returns to Sheshatshiu and performs Traditional Song during a live show of CBC Radio’s On The Go. The tune focuses on community, culture and the next generation of Innu youth.
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Israel accused of wielding starvation as a weapon of war against Gaza
Human Rights Watch urges world leaders to speak out against ‘abhorrent war crime’.
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Risk of starvation: Worsening shortages of food and water in Gaza
15 years of an Israeli blockade, its bombardment and ground attacks are worsening shortages of food and other essential goods in Gaza.
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Starvation used as a ‘weapon of war’ on civilians in Gaza: Oxfam
Oxfam says about 104 trucks a day would be needed to deliver food to Gaza to overcome the crisis.
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Thousands of Atlantic puffins die in North America's largest puffin colony
Researchers believe climate change could be partly to blame for thousands of dead Atlantic puffins in Newfoundland, as warming ocean temperatures force the seabirds to dive deeper and deeper to find fish, leaving many to starve to death.
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UN worries Russian attacks on Ukrainian ports will cause hunger and starvation
After four straight days of Russian attacks on Ukraine's Black Sea ports, the UN says the targeting of Ukrainian grain exports puts lives in danger all over the world.
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Dozen of bodies exhumed from suspected cult graves in Kenya
Dozens of bodies have been exhumed from the site of an alleged cult in Kenya. Investigators say the victims were told they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death.
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Struggle for survival in drought-ravaged Somalia
Drought and hunger are gripping Somalia, leaving people scrambling to find enough food just to stay alive. It has forced some to make unthinkable choices — like selling a baby's fortified food, to get rice to feed the rest of the family.
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‘They don’t believe the rain is coming back:’ Witnessing Somalia's devastating drought
CBC’s Margaret Evans reflects on what she witnessed in drought-ravaged Somalia and the depth and scale of the famine crisis after five missed rainy seasons. Plus, International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan on what more Canada can...
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Somalia pushed to the brink of famine
Drought and hunger are gripping Somalia, leaving people scrambling to find enough food just to stay alive. It has forced some to make unthinkable choices — like selling a baby's fortified food, to get rice to feed the rest of the family.
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Somalia hasn’t seen drought this bad in 40 years
Somalia’s worst drought in 40 years has decimated crops and farm animals that many Somalis rely on, forcing large numbers of people to walk for days in search of food, water and medical aid.
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UN warns over Latin America's hunger crisis
Guatemala has one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in the region, made worse by recent storms and the pandemic, especially affecting the country's children.
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Zimbabwe: Return of white farmers may boost food production
Twenty years after Zimbabwe’s controversial land reform policy, when thousands of white farmers were forcibly evicted, some are returning to the land as tenants of Black owners.
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Zimbabwe elderly bear the brunt of 700 percent inflation rate
Many had saved hard to see them through retirement, but the economic crisis has wiped out much of their savings.
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Zimbabwe's food crisis: About 60% of population faces starvation
The UN’s World Food Programme says more than eight million Zimbabweans would not have enough food by December.
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Migrant caravan sets out for the US amid COVID-19 concerns
Thousands of Hondurans begin their journey to the US as Honduras reels from the pandemic’s economic effect.
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Chile's once robust economy devastated by COVID-19
About 2.5 million people are out of work in the Latin American country and many are going hungry amid the crisis.
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COVID-19 worsens South Sudan hunger crisis
More than five million people in South Sudan rely on food aid to survive - and the coronavirus pandemic is making their lives even harder.
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At least 24 Rohingya refugees stranded at sea die of starvation
At least 24 Rohingya refugees have died of starvation on a boat that has been adrift for two months.
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Gaza’s nutrition crisis grows as families rely on dangerous, inadequate food aid
Gaza families face hunger, danger and malnutrition as aid from GHF sites is scarce, risky and nutritionally inadequate.
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Palestinians in Gaza either die of hunger or risk their lives for a bag of flour
Israeli soldiers have killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded hundreds as they sought aid in Gaza.