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Millions of East Africans are once again threatened by famine. The last major famine in the region occurred in Ethiopia, not in 1984 when an estimated 590,000 people died, but in the country’s Somali Region in 2000 when between 70,000 and 120,000 lives were lost. Just over a decade later, the humanitarian response has started too late, as it did in 1983 and 1999, and many preventable deaths have already been reported. What are the real causes of this crisis – beyond drought – and what are the most appropriate responses – beyond food aid? (...)

The article:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/news/the-east-african-food-crisis-beyond-drought-and-food-aid?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IDS_Newsfeed+%28IDS+News+Feed%29

Sull'argomento:

http://www.zenit.org/article-27485?l=italian

http://www.greenreport.it/_new/index.php?page=default&id=11463

http://www.ilcambiamento.it/popoli_nativi/emergenza_umanitaria_corno_africa.html

http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2011/07/21/somalia-la-carestia-del-secolo-che-piega.html

http://www.galileonet.it/articles/4e2ab01e72b7ab49cc000012

L'appello:

http://www.intersos.org/news/emergenza-siccita-africa-orientale-lanciato-lappello-di-agire