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UN: $4.4B needed within weeks to stop hunger 'catastrophe'
Associated Press ^ | Feb 22, 2017 7:44 PM EST | Jennifer Peltz

Posted on 02/22/2017 5:15:07 PM PST by Olog-hai

The United Nations needs $4.4 billion by the end of March to prevent catastrophic hunger and famine in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, yet just $90 million has been collected so far, Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday.

With over 20 million people at risk of starvation over the next six months and famine already declared in parts of South Sudan, “we are facing a tragedy,” Guterres said.

“We must avoid it becoming a catastrophe.”

Convening reporters for a briefing at the U.N. headquarters, Guterres amplified concerns that U.N. officials and humanitarian groups have expressed in recent weeks about the lack of food in the four nations. While they differ in many ways, their plights all are connected by a thread of violent conflict, Guterres noted. Drought is also a factor, particularly in Somalia. …

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TOPICS: Food; Society
KEYWORDS: drought; famine; guterres; gwot; hunger; moneypit; nigeria; somalia; southsudan; starvation; un; war; yemen
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1 posted on 02/22/2017 5:15:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

If you need money, sell your building in NY.


2 posted on 02/22/2017 5:16:39 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Olog-hai

If you feed them they just reproduce.


3 posted on 02/22/2017 5:17:02 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that they aren’t asking the Saudi’s to shell out the money.


4 posted on 02/22/2017 5:17:41 PM PST by The Working Man
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To: Olog-hai

Reality shows and scams often have artificial deadlines.


5 posted on 02/22/2017 5:19:17 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Olog-hai
What's Secretary-General António Guterres make a year?

Why do I not hear he's giving half his salary?

6 posted on 02/22/2017 5:19:42 PM PST by Osage Orange (We can all live together as brothers or perish together as fools)
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To: Olog-hai

Get it from your friends in Mehico.


7 posted on 02/22/2017 5:20:19 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: Farmer Dean

As a recent Safe Auto insurance commercial stated: “Give a man a fish, and you will have one less fish.”


8 posted on 02/22/2017 5:20:20 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Simple solution. All UN bureaucrats donate their salaries to this humanitarian cause.


9 posted on 02/22/2017 5:22:14 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Olog-hai

Get the Caliphate to pay for it. As if they even care.


10 posted on 02/22/2017 5:23:07 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Olog-hai

How much $ is sitting around in the global warming fund?


11 posted on 02/22/2017 5:24:04 PM PST by JPG (TRUMP WINS!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Take it out of the Clinton Foundation.

By any means necessary.


12 posted on 02/22/2017 5:24:49 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai

So...what? They want us to give it to them?

I think not.


13 posted on 02/22/2017 5:24:51 PM PST by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: Olog-hai

What would Angela Merkel do??


14 posted on 02/22/2017 5:27:49 PM PST by Professional
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To: Olog-hai

These areas have been starving my whole life. When will they do something different?


15 posted on 02/22/2017 5:31:11 PM PST by dgbrown
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To: Farmer Dean

“If you feed them they just reproduce.”

Thomas Malthus, 1798.


16 posted on 02/22/2017 5:33:20 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Professional

Ask George Clooney and his buddies for it.


17 posted on 02/22/2017 5:33:56 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Nuke Bilderberg from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure.)
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To: Olog-hai

They don’t need money. They need to product things and sell them, like we do in the USA. Sending them money doesn’t help. If they would stop killing each other they might be able to eat.


18 posted on 02/22/2017 5:34:34 PM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Olog-hai

Uh, get the dough from the Arabian Peninsula...


19 posted on 02/22/2017 5:35:32 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: dgbrown

They are. They are overpopulating Europe to stop famine.


20 posted on 02/22/2017 5:35:32 PM PST by DeWalt (Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.)
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