You hear the word "kere" hear often, it means "hunger". They steal the livestock and leave the people with nothing to eat despite roots and locusts. In the southernmost part of the island, the situation is especially precarious because the villagers are being terrorised by the "Dahalo", a group of armed bandits. The reason: a drought has persisted for the last 100 years. In Madagascar, 1.5 million people are enduring the worst food shortage in ten years. Villages in the far south of #Madagascar are suffering from extreme hardship and famine due to raids by bandits, climate change and weak government. It’s a crisis that is hardly registering in international media.
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You can license this story through AP Archive: Ore access to the food drops than the people in villages like these. It is said to be common knowledge in Sudan that the rebel soldiers have m There is little the people or the aid agencies can do. That's the only thing they have and it's horrible to see someone on the ground just lying and eating sand." Waiting maybe to get food, maybe waiting to starve of hunger, some of them are just eating sand. This centre is feeding about 2,570 people a day but they know it's not enough to stop many others dying.Īlso, all around our centre you have people lying on the ground just waiting to get some food, some are a little bit more able to stand up, they are just waiting. Quagmires since seasonal rains began later than usual last month. Roads, barely passable in dry weather, have become impassable mud The biggest problem is not getting the food - but getting the food to the people. The United Nations says around one-and-a-half (m) million people in southern Sudan need relief food.
Said Patrick Schmitt, the agency's logistic coordinator. The U-N World Food Programme has air-dropped 290 tons of food in the past 10 days in Ajiep, enough to feed 33-thousand people for a month.īut an estimated 70-thousand people in and around Ajiep are starving, SUPERCAPTION: Carine Daenens, Nurse for Medicins Sans Frontiers Maybe it's the political situation, maybe it's the war situation maybe it's a financial problem, I don't know. "We are all, every agency, all the people working here in this context are trying to get more planes but I don't know why it's so difficult to get more planes to bring food here in southern Sudan to help the people. Now - displaced by a war that appears to have no end - they are slowly starving to death.Ī few weeks ago various rebel groups had agreed to a ceasefire in order to allow more aid agencies to fly planes in with much needed food supplies.Ī feud erupted, however, and the fragile peace broke apart - deepening the need for help in the southern region. These people have fled the latest clashes that have kept their country a virtual war zone - and now they're now fighting for their lives.ĭrought-like conditions drastically cut down the already meagre food supplies available to them. This small aid centre has been set up to feed starving Sudanese who have trudged long distances to find the only food in the rebel-controlled area. They are images that never fail to shock. Sudan has been embroiled in a 15-year civil war in which some one-and-a-half (m) million people have died in the fighting and accompanying famines. Tens of thousands of people are reported to have lost their homes by the latest clashes and the death toll is rising daily. Simple history gives you the facts, simple!Īchaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence ()Īn upsurge in fighting in southern Sudan is worsening the already horrific famine-like conditions. In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten.Ĭopyright: DO NOT translate and re-upload our content on Youtube or other social media. " onClick="activateTab('playlist1') return false">
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