Ekai Lopeyak walks home carrying the body of one of his family’s goats, which he found dead outside the town of Kalokol on the western shore of Lake Turkana in November. Traditional pastoralists have turned to fishing in ever greater numbers in recent years as drought has decimated their herds of livestock. Photo: © Emily H. Johnson/The Washington Post
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How to see a famine before it starts The U.S. government can predict food insecurity before it occurs. But the warnings aren’t always heeded
Thanks to El Niño, some parts of Ethiopia are currently facing the worst drought in 30 years. More than 10 million people in the country will likely need food aid this year. Over the weekend, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon implored the world to attend to this, one of its lesser-recognized ongoing humanitarian crises.
Climate change could devastate Africa. It’s already hurting this Kenyan town.
Women mourn at the funeral for Dinka Chala, a schoolteacher who family members said was shot to death by military forces during a protest in Holonkomi, in the Oromo region of Ethiopia. Photo: © Tiksa Negeri/Reuters
The striking power of poverty to turn young boys into jobless men
Men are more likely to work than women. This has been true in the United States for generations and for entrenched reasons that have to do with “family values” and workplace policies. It’s true because the culture says women should care for their children and because paying for child care is expensive. And it’s true because of discrimination.
Failures in handling unaccompanied migrant minors have led to trafficking
NEW BLOOMINGTON, Ohio — On the phone, the boy was frantic. After traveling hundreds of miles from a village in Guatemala, he had made it across the U.S. border and into a government-funded shelter for unaccompanied minors.
Billions locked in poverty by public sector corruption, report shows. 2015 index of perceived corruption, which ranked Somalia as the worst offender, says more than 6 billion people live in countries where corruption is rife
Indigenous Triqui women lead the march of striking farm workers as it arrives at the fence at the Mexico-U.S. border. Workers marched to the border to protest their low wages (about $9 a day) and draw attention to the fact that the tomatoes and strawberries they pick are exported to the U.S. Photo: © David Bacon
Nepal: Why are so many young women killing themselves?
Suicide has emerged as the single leading cause of death among women in Nepal aged 15-49, outranking other causes such as accidents and disease, according to a government study.
One fish, two fish, no fish: Rebuilding of fish stocks urgently needed
Food prices are down about 40 percent from their highs inn 2011 measured in dollars, but, offsetting this to a significant degree for countries that have to import food, their currencies have weakened against the dollar, increasing the amount they have to pay for imported food. Photo: © Jason Patinkin/IRIN
“The workers of San Quintín Valley are no longer willing to be invisible”
Around the world, subsidized fishing fleets from Europe, China and Japan have depleted the fish populations on which coastal residents depend. Photo: © Christopher Pala/IPS
