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US system for monitoring famine globally disrupted by Trump's 90 day freeze on nearly all US foreign assistance
01 Feb 2025 15:26 GMT
The United States' system for monitoring famine globally has reportedly been taken offline in response to President Donald Trump's order for a 90-day freeze on nearly all US foreign assistance.
The Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet) was …
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US system predicting global famine offline amid Trump freeze
31 Jan 2025 23:57 GMT
The United States' system for monitoring famine globally has been taken offline amid President Donald Trump's order for a 90-day freeze on nearly all US foreign assistance.
The Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet) was established after the …
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Trump’s aid freeze shuts down ‘gold standard’ famine-monitoring system
31 Jan 2025 18:22 GMT
The system for monitoring global food crises appears to have been suspended after President Donald Trump’s executive order froze US foreign aid.
The website for the US-funded famine early warning systems network (Fews Net) was not accessible on Friday. A …
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Africa File, January 30, 2025: Rwandan-Backed M23 Captures Goma; SAF Breakthroughs in Khartoum; IS Sahel Linked to Angola Plot Targeting Biden Visit; IS Calls for Jihad in Sudan; Somalia Agrees with Egypt in AUSSOM
30 Jan 2025 18:44 GMT
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Alex de Waal: How to Measure Famine
29 Jan 2025 19:19 GMT
… Twenty years ago in the Horn of Africa, communities stricken by hunger asked … metrics were designed with African rural populations in mind … the nadir of the famine in Somalia in 2011. Acute food … Ethiopia in 2021, IPC data pointed to an impending famine in …
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Religion Could Play Important Role in Restoring Peace to Ethiopia
29 Jan 2025 02:49 GMT
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An estimated 98% of Ethiopians claim a religious affiliation. … linked with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Ethiopian Catholic Church … Relief Partnership during the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s.
“ … do that.”
Yirga said African religious institutions can also …
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‘USA for Africa’ Supergroup Records ‘We Are the World’ in 1985
28 Jan 2025 20:02 GMT
On this day in 1985, the iconic charity single We Are the World was recorded, eventually becoming the eighth best-selling single of all time.
Its creation is a testament to the power of collaboration. Inspired by Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas?, …
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The world at war: the flashpoints that the west ignores
02 Feb 2025 07:09 GMT
… Kagame as a model African leader when it wanted … but principally by Ethiopian government and allied Eritrean forces.
Internal … Somalia over sea access via Somaliland.
Concern now surrounds Ethiopia’ … hundreds of thousands face famine conditions as a result …
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Trump: Sudan’s Messiah?
30 Jan 2025 23:25 GMT
The last couple of years have seen no shortage of bloodshed. But while most of the world’s attention has been focused on the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the most devastating conflict of our time has been unfolding in Sudan. There, a power struggle …
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Endless TPLF misdeeds made Ethiopians support Ginbot 7
11 Mar 2015 20:19 GMT
… anywhere in the African continent. The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary … the major industries in Ethiopia including Banking, Construction, … for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 was … soldier and fight against Eritrea. The Governor specifically asked …