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Jumat, 25 November 2011
Child Abuse ( Watch If You Can )
These are the ones I could watch..and post. It's just so painful and what hurts most is that the children have gone through this horror.
Don't think that it only happen to "them" and not "us"..it's everywhere.
Rabu, 23 November 2011
Selasa, 22 November 2011
Kamis, 17 November 2011
Kamis, 10 November 2011
Somalia Famine: Baby Minhaj Gedi Farah Back From Brink Of Death
Despite all , you can not feel but happiness and hope when reading such great news :)
Somalia Famine: Baby Minhaj Gedi Farah Back From Brink Of Death
By KATHARINE HOURELD, Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya -- As Minhaj Gedi Farah lay silently on a hospital bed three months ago, even his mother had given up hope that the skeletal Somali baby would live. Weeks of intensive feeding, though, have transformed him into a chubby-cheeked infant who crawls.
The is one of several stories highlighted Wednesday in an annual New York fundraising event held by the aid group International Rescue Committee, which helped nurse Minhaj back to health.
Famine has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Somali children this year, but the U.N. said despite restrictions by Islamist insurgents, heavy rains and fighting, aid agencies are expanding their reach. Food aid is now getting to 2.2 million of the 4 million Somalis who need it, the U.N. said.
"His mother never thought he would recover. Every member of his family is happy," said Sirat Amin, a nurse-nutritionist with the International Rescue Committee who has been monitoring Minhaj's progress. "He can sit without being supported, he can have (nutritional supplement) Plumpynut on his own. He's crawling."
In July, the month that the U.N. declared parts of Somalia famine zones, Minhaj was one of dozens of limp babies lying under mosquito net shrouds in the sweltering wards of the IRC hospital in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp. Seven-month-old Minhaj weighed only 3.2 kilograms (7.05 pounds), less than some newborns.
Pictures of his gaunt cheeks and bulging eyes made him the face of the famine. But after weeks of intensive feeding with Plumpynut - a kind of sweetened peanut butter packed with nutrients - he is nearly 8 kilograms (17.64 pounds), almost normal for a boy his age.
Since the beginning of the year, hundreds of thousands of Somali families have poured over the border, fleeing war and hunger. Domes made from dirty tarpaulins and scraps of cloth mushroomed on the scrublands of northern Kenya and the U.N.'s famine announcement brought planeloads of television crews to capture images of their suffering.
Now the torrent of refugees fleeing into Kenya has slowed to a trickle and the camera crews have gone home. But that doesn't mean the emergency is over.
Nearly 2 million Somalis still don't have access to food aid. Rain has turned tracks through the bush to slush and there's been fighting along the border after hundreds of Kenyan soldiers crossed into Somalia. Last month's incursion followed a string of kidnappings on Kenyan soil by Somali gunmen.
Families wanting to flee may fear being caught up in the fighting or be stuck in the mud. Only the strongest are getting through. When they arrive, they are not only starving but sick and exhausted, Amin said. So although less are coming, when they arrive in the refugee camps in Kenya many are in a more severe state of starvation.
The ward where Amin works has been expanded by two tents, but even so, 78 children are sharing 56 beds. That's about twice as many as when Minhaj was admitted. Some children are in even worse condition than he was.
Many of the new arrivals come in with diarrhea, cases of cholera, or secondary infections. Amin and other aid agencies say that deaths from illness are likely to rocket as weakened immune systems contend with the cold rains and diseases spread by puddles of dirty water.
The U.N. Children's Fund said around 168,0000 acutely malnourished children under the age of 5 could die within weeks. They are concerned about infectious diseases like measles, cholera and malaria, particularly in the dirty and overcrowded camps in the capital of Mogadishu.
"The famine is not over ... Children are dying on a daily basis," said Hannan Sulieman, UNICEF's deputy representative for the Somalia mission. "Malnutrition has been way above emergency levels for over 10 years."
She said that her organization was planning to maintain current levels of aid until August or September next year, when Somalia would have had a long and a short rain harvest.
The famine is the worst emergency to hit Somalia for a generation. The U.N. has appealed for $1 billion and has got $779 million so far.
But aid still doesn't reach many of the starving. Islamist militias battling the weak U.N.-backed government have forbidden many aid agencies to operate in their territory, exacerbating the effects of a severe drought.
So even after their parents have struggled through the mud, have made it past the militias and have staggered into the hospital, it is still too late for many, said Amin.
"I'm coping with it but sometimes it's heartbreaking. People are suffering. Sometimes they die in front of you," he said. "Sometimes you want to help but the numbers are just so high. There are just so many."
But seeing children like Minhaj recover gives him the strength to go on.
Senin, 07 November 2011
An Invitation
I am not the best writer I know, I wish to be great but wishes sometimes stay wishes for good..Yet, I do love to write but sometimes the things I write about are very boring or self centered
So here is an invitation to those who read and comment and those who read but don't comment. Submit topics to write about, what shall I write about ? . Is there something you want me to write about or I should write about . OR maybe you would like to be a guest in here and submit a piece of your own writing or something you like and wanted to share and comment about !!
What do you think ?
Or shall I go and have a huge and delicious (any kind) of food.
Hope to hear from you ALL :)
Selasa, 01 November 2011
Kamis, 20 Oktober 2011
Senin, 10 Oktober 2011
World Food Day,16 October:"Food prices - from crisis to stability".
Can you believe that there is enough food in the world for everyone !!.
Then why there is famine in Somalia!!
World Food Day, 16 October 2011
This year theme is
"Food prices - from crisis to stability".
Food prices - from crisis to stability
Price swings, upswings in particular, represent a major threat to food security in developing countries. Hardest-hit are the poor. According to the World Bank, in 2010-2011 rising food costs pushed nearly 70 million people into extreme poverty.
“FOOD PRICES – FROM CRISIS TO STABILITY” has been chosen as this year’s World Food Day theme to shed some light on this trend and what can be done to mitigate its impact on the most vulnerable.
On World Food Day 2011, let us look seriously at what causes swings in food prices, and do what needs to be done to reduce their impact on the weakest members of global society. (source)
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Kamis, 29 September 2011
Famine in Somalia
An info graphic depicting famine in Somalia by the numbers shared by The Washington Post.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand Somalis may die of starvation this year. That’s equivalent to wiping out every single person in Washington, plus 150,000 more.
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A Son Returns to the Agony of Somalia
ONE has to be careful about stories. Especially true ones. When a story is told the first time, it can find a place in the listener’s heart. If the same story is told over and over, it becomes less like a presence in that chest and more like an X-ray of it.
The beating heart of my story is this: I was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. I had a brief but beautiful childhood filled with poetry from renowned relatives. Then came a bloody end to it, a lesson in life as a Somali: death approaching from the distance, walking into our lives in an experienced stroll.
At 12 years old, I lost three of the boys I grew up with in one burst of machine-gun fire — one pull from the misinformed finger of a boy probably not much older than we were.
Read The Whole Story : NYTimes.com
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Minggu, 18 September 2011
Somalia
المجاعة تجتاح الصومال والعالم يراقب من بعيد
لميس فرحات من بيروت
تمنع حركة الشباب الاسلامية في الصومال دخول المساعدات إلى المناطق التي تسيطر عليها، بعدما ضربت موجة الجفاف والمجاعة الصومال مخلفة عشرات الآلاف من القتلى. وناشدت الامم المتحدة المجتمع الدولي للتدخل وعدم الوقوف مكتوف اليدين.
بيروت: هل سيقف العالم مكتوف اليدين ليشاهد 750 ألف صومالياً يموتون جوعاً؟ ضربت موجة الجفاف والمجاعة الصومال مخلفة عشرات الآلاف من القتلى، في الوقت الذي تمنع حركة الشباب الاسلامية دخول المساعدات إلى المناطق التي تسيطر عليها.
وأطلق مسئولون بالأمم المتحدة الخميس تحذيرات شديدة من امكانية وقوع كارثة قد تعصف بحياة نحو750 الف صومالي بسبب نقص الطعام ، مناشدين المجتمع الدولي بالتدخل وعدم الوقوف مكتوف الأيدي.
ونقلت صحيفة "نيويورك تايمز" الأمريكية عن مسؤولي الامم المتحدة - في تقرير بثته على موقعها الالكتروني بشبكة الانترنت- قولهم ان جماعة الشباب الإسلامية المتطرفة بالصومال تعرقل وصول أية مساعدات من وكالات الاغاثة الخارجية إلى المناطق التي تسيطر عليها، مشيرة إلى ان 750 ألف صومالي لن يجدوا الطعام خلال الأشهر القليلة القادمة هذا فضلاً عن عشرات الآلاف الذين لقوا حتفهم قبل ذلك.
وأشارت وكالات الاغاثة إلى أن الأمطار سوف تهطل قريباً على الصومال، إلا ان ذلك سيحدث قبل نمو أية محاصيل زراعية، كما أن الأمراض مثل الملاريا والكوليرا والتيفوئيد والحصبة ستكون قد اجتاحت السكان "ذوي المناعة الضعيفة" الأمر الذي سيؤدي إلى وفاة أعداد مهولة من الشعب الصومالي.
وذكّرت الصحيفة ببدايات عام 1990 حين عانت الصومال من مجاعة مشابهة وقامت مجموعة من "البلطجية قساة القلب" -على حد وصف الصحيفة- باعتراض شاحنات المساعدات الغذائية المتجهة للصومال مما اسفر عن تجويع الأطفال الذين تحولوا إلى صور مروعة لهياكل عظمية في الرمال.
وأشارت الصحيفة إلى أن العالم كان أكثر استعداداً للتدخل عام 1990، فقد احتشدت الامم المتحدة وراء اكثر من 25 الف جندي أميركي في بعثة كلفت ملايين الدولارات لصد المسلحين المتطرفين وتمهيد الطريق لإرسال الإمدادات الغذائية للشعب الجائع.
أما النقيض لذلك، فهو ما حدث الاسبوع الماضي في القمة الاقليمية "الباهتة" لبحث المجاعة في القرن الافريقي والتي عقدت في العاصمة الكينية نيروبي، فقد اقترح رئيس الوزراء الاثيوبي ماليز زيناوي بناء ممرات انسانية بالقوة لمساعدة قافلات المساعدات الانسانية بتسليم شحناتها للمناطق التي تسيطر عليها جماعة الشباب، الأمر الذي لاقى ترحيباً من عدد قليل من الدول المانحة الغربية.
وأشار العديد من المحللين إلى أن القوات العسكرية الاجنبية لم تنجح في حل المشكلة الصومالية ولا يبدو أنهم سيستطيعون حلها في الوقت الراهن، فهذه المجاعة ليست نتيجة منع جماعة الشباب إدخال المساعدات الغذائية الى البلاد، بل نتيجة دولة محطمة تسبب فيها مخربون.
واتخذ المحللون مثالاً على ذلك العاصمة الصومالية مقديشو حيث انسحب منها جماعة الشباب تاركين الحكومة الانتقالية الصومالية مسيطرة على مساحات كبيرة من المدينة، وبدلاً من ان تترجم الحكومة سيطرتها في مساعدة الشعب الصومالي، قام جنود الحكومة
بنهب شاحنات المساعدات وإطلاق النيران على الناس الجوعى.
المصدر : ايلاف
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AU Blames International Indifference for Somalia Famine Deaths
An African Union report says many people are dying in famine-stricken Somalia because of international indifference to their plight. AU officials are urging the United Nations and the donor community to move quickly now that Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked militants are in retreat.
African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping said Somalia’s famine is needlessly claiming lives that could have been saved if early famine warnings had been heeded.
Read the whole story: voanews.com
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Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene
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Minggu, 21 Agustus 2011
If This Picture Doesn't Move Your Heart ...
If you are in Saudi Arabia, then tomorrow is your chance to help, please donate..
Mulmillo (L) closes the eyes of her two-year-old son Mahmud moments after he died from malnutrition and related complications at a local hospital in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on August 15, 2011. Mulmillo, her husband and three children fled their village in the Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia and came to Mogadishu in search for a refuge from a severe drought in the region. More than 100,000 people have fled to Mogadishu from other drought-struck Somalia regions in search of food and water, but insecurity in one of the world's most dangerous cities is hampering aid flows. Some 12 million people in parts of Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda and Somalia are in danger of starvation in the wake of the region's worst drought in decades. AFP PHOTO / ROBERTO SCHMIDT
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