Famine News

10:35 AM EST
2/9/2012 The world’s oldest ‘Yo Mama’ jokeResearchers decipher work of Babylonian-era cut-ups, but don’t always get it.

Source:TML Topics:Arts, Culture And Entertainment, Archaeology, Science And Technology, Human Science, History, Literature

12:43 PM EST
2/6/2012 Displaced Malians burden food-insecure hostsSome 12,000 Malians have fled fighting in the towns of Ménaka and Anderamboucane in northern Mali and reached already food-insecure villages around Tillabéri in western Niger, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Niger's capital, Niamey.

Source:IRIN Topics:Unrest, Conflicts And War, Conflict, Social Issue, Demographics, Emigrants, Disaster And Accident, Famine

7:21 AM EST
1/30/2012 Terror targets with Teflon coatingA study took surveys conducted by the government’s Central Bureau of Statistics during the height of the Second Palestinian Intifada, isolating the responses given within days of a terror attack, to see whether people’s sense of “life satisfaction” was affected by the violence.

Source:TML Topics:Health, Medical Research, Unrest, Conflicts And War, Civil Unrest, Science And Technology, Human Science, Psychology

7:15 AM EST
1/27/2012 Time running out for displaced farmersMuch of Dawood Boy's village in northern Afghanistan is empty. More than 1,000 families from Alburz in Balkh Province abandoned it four to six months ago after a drought affecting nearly half the country left 2.8 million people in need of food assistance, according to the World Food Program. The drought destroyed the crops Boy had planted, killed his livestock which no longer had animal feed, and left his family without seeds for next season.

Source:IRIN Topics:Disaster And Accident, Famine, Economy, Business And Finance, Agriculture, Arable Farming, Social Issue, Poverty

12:22 PM EST
1/24/2012 Thousands of villages hit by severe food shortagesNearly half Niger's population does not have enough to eat and the government says it is facing a grain shortfall of 692,501 tons, following another severe drought across the Sahel.

Source:IRIN Topics:Disaster And Accident, Famine, Politics, Government, Safety Of Citizens, Social Issue, Poverty

10:03 AM EST
1/12/2012 Al-Shabaab blocks Somali famine reliefRed Cross, one of the few organizations providing urgent food and other humanitarian aid to over a quarter of a million people in the conflict areas of Somalia, has announced it is halting supplies, saying Islamic militants had suddenly and inexplicably begun blocking supplies.

Source:TML Topics:Unrest, Conflicts And War, Armed Conflict, Social Issue, Social Issues, Disaster And Accident, Famine

12:40 PM EST
11/23/2011 Herod started the Temple, but great-grandson finished the jobArchaeologists have uncovered what they say is evidence that the massive retaining wall of the ancient Temple Mount wasn’t even started until at least 20 years after Herod died in 4 B.C.. The new findings challenge the perception that the enormous edifice, the largest construction endeavor in the ancient Holy Land, had been solely the work of the ancient king, known as Herod the Builder.

Source:TML Topics:Science And Technology, Human Science, Religion And Belief, Arts, Culture And Entertainment, Archaeology

11:33 PM EST
11/19/2011 Somalia warns soldiers against looting of food aid, shooting of refugeesSomalia’s prime minister, touring the Badbaado refugee camp in Mogadishu, has strongly deplored the killing of refugees in the camps and the looting of aid intended for the drought-stricken people by freelance militias and government forces

Source:AHN Topics:Disaster And Accident, Famine, Unrest, Conflicts And War, Civil Unrest, Social Conflict, Politics, Defense, Armed Forces

2:02 PM EST
11/18/2011 Census: More Americans living past 90The number of people living past 90 have surged in the past 30 years.

Source:AHN Topics:Social Issue, Demographics, Population And Census, Science And Technology, Human Science

11:30 AM EDT
11/4/2011 Roman lovers buried holding hands for 1,500 yearsSkeletal remains of a Roman era couple shows the pair holding hands for 1,500 years.

Source:AHN Topics:Science And Technology, Human Science, Human Interest, Curiosity, Arts, Culture And Entertainment, Archaeology