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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Get after the corrupt governments to hand out the food they have hoarded.
We need to do a 5 year study on this and get back to the people on this planet for further discussions.(/s-now I FEEL better about the world and universe)
NOT A PENNY !
Translation: UN officials have been forced to drink domestic champagne, eat Icelandic caviar, and procure post-teen hookers. The United States, that repository of everything evil on earth, needs to step up and finance a much more lavish lifestyle for the robe-wearing letches and third-world plutocrats.
Despite perennial starvation in these countries, their populations have increased by 4-5x since the 1970s and by 20% just since 2010.
Why doesn’t the left send them the contraception, abortion and deviance propaganda that it uses on western countries?
All a ruse to make the UN look like they care. When in fact they want to decrease the population.
Ninety nine percent of it going to corrupt national leaders. And their families.
This does not refer to Sudan but to the country of South Sudan, which is predominantly Christian and other nonislamic faiths.
South Sudan is the region that the Sudanese jihadis would raid constantly, destroying entire villages, burning churches, etc.
- Lack of freedom
- Lack of capitalism
- Brutal military dictatorships that oppresses its own people
- Globalist elites who prefer Africa to remain the s--thole it is
Send them a million pork sandwiches!
Ok, that WAS rude of me.
Send food, never money.
Great response. Take it from the global warming fund.
Oh noes! Plus the earth is warming! Better add another trillion!
Let’s see how they get along with the fees the US pays for ourselves and for other nations.
Maybe Ted Turner will cover it.
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