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Illegal Drug Trade Turning East Africa Into Major Crime Center, U.N. Official Says In a speech to the U.N. Security Council Tuesday, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N… Source: Also In Global Health News: Illegal Drug Trade In E. Africa; Somalia Humanitarian Crisis; Alcohol, IV Drug Use In Russia; ...4 days ago -
World Food Supply Under Threat from Environmental Factors
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The global food supply is facing major security challenges, as warming global average temperatures and the destabilization of climate patterns and natural services undermine dependable agricultural cycles and threaten resources. The food supply is the most direct and visible connection between the breakdown of global ...4 days ago -
Climate Refugees Could Number 1 Billion by 2050
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Climate refugees in central Zimbabwe. Photo via EcoWorldy While the disastrous consequences of climate change may seem a ways off for some in the developed world, the International Organization for Migration reported today that it has already driven an estimated 24 million people from their homes–a number, they ...5 days ago -
Bangladesh Faces Threat from Rising Seas (video)
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A Floating Future (Bangladesh) from stephen sapienza on Vimeo . With a population of over 150 million people, and much of its land below sea level, Bangladesh is already losing significant amounts of cropland to rising seas related to persistent warming in global average temperatures and polar and glacial ice ...6 days ago -
Urban refugees struggle to make ends meet in South Africa
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PRETORIA, South Africa, December 7 (UNHCR) - Telmore Mutinhima struggles to sleep on his grimy, threadbare mattress on an early South African morning. It’s his most treasured possession - it’s his only possession.There’s the odour of unwashed bodies in the abandoned warehouse where he lies in a cubicle amid ...1 week ago -
Good News in Somalia
Adventures and Thoughts of Team Cross —
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There are little bits of good news happening in the “country” of Somalia. Here is a video from the NYTimes about a Somali refugee who took advantage of what the US and Minneapolis has to offer in terms of education, etc. He then went back to Somalia and is making an impact on his village. [...]Related posts: ...2 weeks ago -
Malaria Kills Millions Every Year in Africa
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Malaria is one of the 21st century’s great plagues. It is responsible for anywhere from 1 to 3 million deaths per year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts to eradicate the disease are mounting: in the year 2000, just 3% of children under 5, in sub-Saharan Africa, slept with mosquito nets; by 2008, that ...3 weeks ago -
Humanitarian aid to Gaza up by 900 percent, says Israel
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Jerusalem, Nov. 17 (ANI): The inflow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip has gone up by approximately 900 percent in 12 months, the IDF has said.“We are investing major resources to enable the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip,” The Jerusalem Post quoted Col. Moshe Levi, head of the IDF’s Gaza ...3 weeks ago
