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COVID-19 threatens to starve Africa

Commentary / World Apr 27, 2020

COVID-19 threatens to starve Africa

by Jessica Fanzo

The continent has some unique strengths in the pandemic, but food insecurity is a special vulnerability.

Over 80,000 Yemeni children may have died from hunger, aid group says

World / Social Issues Nov 22, 2018

Over 80,000 Yemeni children may have died from hunger, aid group says

An estimated 85,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger in Yemen since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the civil war in 2015, an aid agency said on Wednesday, as the U.N. special envoy arrived in Yemen to pursue peace talks. Western countries ...

Yemen's Houthis threaten to block vital shipping lane if Saudi-led force tries to take key Red Sea port

World Jan 10, 2018

Yemen's Houthis threaten to block vital shipping lane if Saudi-led force tries to take key Red Sea port

Yemen's armed Houthi movement threatened to block the strategic Red Sea shipping lane if the Saudi-led coalition it is fighting keeps pushing toward the port of Hodeida it controls, the Houthi-run SABA news agency reported. Yemen lies beside the southern mouth of the Red Sea, ...

World / Social Issues Dec 14, 2017

400,000 children seen facing starvation in war-ravaged Congo as aid dries up

Hunger has surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 400,000 children at risk of starving to death due to conflict, displacement and funding shortages, aid agencies said. Militia fighting that broke out in Congo's central Kasai region last year has led to an eight-fold ...

National / Politics Nov 15, 2017

U.N. panel backs Japan-led resolution denouncing North Korea's human rights abuses

A United Nations committee on Tuesday endorsed a Japan- and European Union-led resolution that takes aim at North Korea's human rights violations against its citizens. "The human rights situation in the DPRK continues to be of great concern," according to a joint Japan-EU statement read ...

Michiko Inukai, author, philanthropist and granddaughter of former PM, dies at 96

National Jul 24, 2017

Michiko Inukai, author, philanthropist and granddaughter of former PM, dies at 96

Michiko Inukai, an author and philanthropist who worked to help refugees and people facing starvation, died Monday at 96, according to people close to her. She was a granddaughter of former Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai, who was killed in an attempted coup in 1932 that ...

Ex-North Korean propaganda artist turns his skills to satire

Asia Pacific May 14, 2017

Ex-North Korean propaganda artist turns his skills to satire

by Emma Batha

For seven years North Korean artist Song Byeok painted propaganda posters glorifying the world's most secretive regime. Today, having defected to South Korea, he uses his talents to satirize his repressive homeland. Growing up, Song says he revered North Korean founder Kim Il Sung as ...

Amnesty report cites forced cannibalism, rape, death, trauma as South Sudan turns 5

World / Social Issues Jul 6, 2016

Amnesty report cites forced cannibalism, rape, death, trauma as South Sudan turns 5

Mass killings, rape, torture, abductions and forced cannibalism have led to an increase in mental illness in South Sudan, with patients routinely housed in prisons due to an "almost total" absence of mental health care, a rights group said on Wednesday. There are only two ...

More aid trucked into besieged Syrian towns; U.N. brands starvation tactic war crime

World / Social Issues Jan 15, 2016

More aid trucked into besieged Syrian towns; U.N. brands starvation tactic war crime

A second batch of aid reached a besieged Syrian town and two trapped villages on Thursday and the United Nations accused rival factions of committing war crimes by causing civilians to starve to death. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, ...

Man sentenced to 19 years for abandoning 5-year-old son who died of starvation

National / Crime & Legal Oct 22, 2015

Man sentenced to 19 years for abandoning 5-year-old son who died of starvation

The Yokohama District Court on Thursday sentenced a 37-year-old man to 19 years in prison for abandoning a 5-year-old son who died of starvation while he continued to receive child allowance payments for years afterward. Yukihiro Saito denied his son Riku sufficient food and water ...

National / Crime & Legal Nov 21, 2014

Osaka couple arrested for starving 3-year-old daughter to death

A Osaka couple are held for allegedly starving their 3-year-old daughter to death, while a Niigata mom is suspected of throwing her daughter, also 3, off a bridge.

National / Crime & Legal May 29, 2013

Mom, son who fled abuse found starved to death

A 28-year-old woman found dead with her 3-year-old son in an apartment in Osaka, apparently of starvation, may have been trying to escape domestic violence.

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