Famine

Ogaden, ONLF, and the UN – US Task to Prevent Famine: Eliminate the Abyssinian Culture of Death
The world has to rush to Ogaden before the Islamists arrive first to turn the Somali inland plateau to a laboratory for the forthcoming Islamic Republic of East Africa.

Saafi Labafidhin Calls the Global Community to React to ‘Ethiopian’ State – Promoted Famine
If Meles Zenawi is allowed by the global community to achieve his target and perform a deliberate genocide, the famine will hit, putting an end to the lives of no less than 2 million Ogadenis, Oromos, and others.

BBC Lies on Famine: the Only Rain in ‘Ethiopia’ is the Rain of the Cut Heads
This is BBC mendacity, duplicity, and complicity; unrepentant, pernicious, inhuman England in its most inhumanly ugly face.

Fuel-induced Famine triggers Genocide in Beni-shangoul, Neo-Nazi Abyssinia (Fake ‘Ethiopia’)
What happened to Beni-shangoul – Gumuz is a combination of Neo-Nazi Abyssinian totalitarianism and direct foreign agro-fuel investment.

One Million Face Famine After Rats Feast on Crops
Rodents hunting rare fruit overrun state of Mizoram in north-east India

Millions Face Famine As Crop Disease Rages
Scientists say wheat blight that ravaged Africa is set on a course for Asia.

Famine Fear As North Korea Plays Down Flood Crisis
Fears of a fresh humanitarian crisis in North Korea were heightened yesterday by reports that recent flooding may have killed thousands more people than originally thought.

World Warned It Must Do Better As 20m Face Threat of Famine in Africa
· Appeal for help as drought reaches crisis point · Film raised awareness but aid too slow to arrive

Famine in Africa: Silently, Malawi Begins to Starve
With food supplies running out, charities warn that huge and immediate aid is needed.

Niger President Denies Famine
The president of Niger has denied reports that the country is facing a famine, saying his people "look well-fed". President Mamdou Tandja admitted that a devastating locust invasion and poor rains had created a food shortage, but said that was not unusual for Niger or the entire Sahel...

Minister Criticises Sluggish Response to Crisis in Niger
A British aid plane carrying food took off for famine-stricken Niger yesterday as Britain's development secretary, Hilary Benn, admitted that the international system had failed the country.

Red Cross Joins Aid Effort in Niger
The British Red Cross flew a logistics team to Niger yesterday, joining the growing international response to the famine in west Africa. Food rations from the United Nations started to arrive last week, but thousands of children are already suffering from hunger and Oxfam has warned that millions more face starvation.

21 years on, fear of famine still stalks Ethiopia
On the plains where a BBC crew alerted the world to a tragedy of 'biblical' proportions, food is still scarce.

How We Failed to Lift Ethiopia's Curse
Tracy McVeigh hears a searing indictment of Western aid as a famine survivor tells her: 'Maybe you should have let us die in '84'.

Bush to Offer Africa £370m Famine Relief
George Bush is expected to meet Britain's Africa agenda only part way with the announcement of £370m for famine relief when he appears at a joint press conference in Washington today with Tony Blair.

Small Triumph in a World of Scarce Hope
Agencies' work and refugees' resourcefulness avert famine, but aid still vital.

UN tells North Korea to protect its environment
North Korea must take urgent action to protect its environment, the UN environment programme said yesterday, publishing its first report on the deforestation and pollution caused by more than a decade of famine and economic hardship.

10,000 'died of Hunger' in Zimbabwe
Catholic archbishop warns of famine as journalists are held over report that Mugabe was taking a winter break.

Africa's Forgotten Famine
The arrival of tonnes of food aid for Madagascar shows the crisis caused by its chronic, but largely unreported, food shortage, says Rory Carroll.

Vicious Circle Traps Starving Ethiopians
The answer was simple in 1984: feed the world. But the famine has defied easy remedies to return to a land of green and lush pastures.

Ethiopia's Worst Famine in 20 Years
Charities say 20m people may need food aid to survive, as measles and malaria sweep countryside.

'Not a Penny' Given to $6m Un Famine Appeal
The United Nations accused the world yesterday of allowing the crisis in the Middle East to distract it from a famine threatening more than a million people in the Central African Republic, saying it had not received a penny in response to an urgent appeal for funds. The UN's World Food...

Ethiopian Leader Attacks West's Failure to Give Aid
Ethiopia's prime minister called on the west yesterday to reform damaging trade policies and increase development aid to help his country break its 20-year-long cycle of poverty and famine. Warning that millions of Ethiopians still face the threat of starvation because of the slow...

Nestlé U-turn on Ethiopia Debt
Public outrage forces firm to drop $6m claim against country hit by famine. Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government.

Aid Trucks Reach the End of the Earth
Determined convoy teams are the last hope for millions. By dawn, the convoy is ploughing through the bush, rolling east into a rising sun with 58 tonnes of emergency food for a settlement camp cut off without aid deep in Angola's famine territory.

North Korea: From famine to rat race
When Kim Hee-sun fled her North Korean home in the dead of night with only the clothes on her back and a bag of salt to ward off evil spirits, she and her family could only dream of the new year they have just passed in Seoul.

Zimbabwe: Praying for rain and democracy
The Seke communal area is just two hours' drive from the metropolitan buzz of Zimbabwe's capital, but it is at the heart of the famine that is sweeping across southern Africa.

Why Vegans Were Right All Along
Famine can only be avoided if the rich give up meat, fish and dairy. The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians. But one feature of the celebrations has remained unchanged:

Ethiopia Faces £330m Claims
The impoverished government of Ethiopia, which is struggling to combat the worst famine in 20 years, is facing demands from private creditors of up to $500m (£330m). The World Bank, which is negotiating on behalf of the Ethiopian government, has offered claimants all the compensation...

Nestle to Plough Debt Money Into Ethiopian Aid
Nestle, the Swiss-based multinational embroiled in controversy over its demand for $6m (£3.7m) from the famine-stricken government of Ethiopia, has promised to donate the money to hunger relief. Facing a mounting public relations disaster over the company's handling of the issue, the...

Retreat By Nestle on Ethiopia's $6m Debt
Nestle, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating climbdown yesterday after a wave of public outrage greeted its demand for a $6m (£3.7m) payment from the government of famine stricken Ethiopia. The company promised to invest any money it receives from...

Nestle Claims £3.7m From Famine-hit Ethiopia
The multinational coffee corporation, Nestle, is demanding a $6m (£3.7m) payment from the government of the world's poorest state, Ethiopia, as the country struggles to combat its worst famine for nearly 20 years. The money is compensation for an Ethiopian business which the previous...

Nestle Claims £3.7m From Famine-hit Ethiopia
The multinational coffee corporation, Nestle, is demanding a $6m (£3.7m) payment from the government of the world's poorest state, Ethiopia, as the country struggles to combat its worst famine for nearly 20 years. The money is compensation for an Ethiopian business which the previous...

Still Out in the Cold
Introducing a week-long Guardian Unlimited investigation of North Korea, Simon Tisdall profiles a secretive, famine-ravaged country which forms part of George Bush's 'axis of evil'.

Red Cross launches Ethiopia famine appeal
The Red Cross today launched an appeal to counter famine in drought-stricken Ethiopia, and the country's prime minister warned up to 15 million people could die of hunger without urgent help.

Famine Becomes Mugabe Weapon
In a shockingly sinister act of vengeance, Zimbabwe's dictator is orchestrating a slow death by starvation for millions of his opponents.

US May Intervene to Save Zimbabweans
The US government warned yesterday that it might take "intrusive, interventionist measures" to deliver food aid directly to millions of famine-hit Zimbabweans if President Robert Mugabe continues to starve his political opponents. Washington is considering measures that would challenge...

Africa's Ugly Sisters Leave Trail of Death
A summit next week will explore new ways to fight the twin evils of Aids and famine.

Mugabe stops charities' famine work
The Zimbabwe government has banned Oxfam and Save the Children from distributing urgently needed food aid, UN officials confirmed yesterday. Despite reports that people are dying of starvation, President Robert Mugabe's government has refused to allow the two charities to deliver food supplied by the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

Mugabe fails to heed pleas of starving
Declan Walsh reports from the Zambezi Valley, where land redistribution has fatally deepened a drought-led food crisis.

And Then There Were Too Many
Unintended wars, rampant disease, and lethal famines will ultimately trim our numbers - no matter how noble our intentions and how diligent our efforts to curb them.

Ethiopia proves there can be life after death
Three decades ago, Jonathan Dimbleby came out of Ethiopia with harrowing images of hunger that claimed at least 100,000 lives. Now he returns to find despair has been replaced by hope that the country can escape the new famine.

Britons urged to help avert African catastrophe
Appeal launched as millions face famine caused by prolonged drought compounded by political upheaval. Britain's leading aid agencies opened an appeal yesterday for funds to feed more than 14 million people facing starvation in southern Africa, which is suffering the worst drought for a decade.

GM Firms the Only Winners at Food Talks Summit
A world food summit ended in recrimination yesterday when it was branded a waste of time for everyone except the United States, which successfully sold genetically modified crops as a solution to famine.

Africa Dominates Famine Summit
Mugabe sidesteps EU ban to attend food conference.

Urgent Talks to Stem Famine Crisis in Southern Africa
Nearly 13 million people in southern Africa face famine in the coming months because drought, floods and political upheaval have nearly halved grain production in the region this year, the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) warned yesterday. UN agencies, donors and agricultural...

Southern Africa Faces Famine
Some 10 million people in four African countries are at risk of starvation in the worst food shortages in a decade, say the UN's World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organisation. The two bodies say that at least 4m tonnes of food will need to be imported over the next year...

The Great Famine In Ireland, 1845-1849
The potato was the principal source of nutrition for the vast majority of the poorer classes because this crop produced more food per acre than wheat and could also be used to generate income.