Why It's So Hard To Stop The World's Looming Famines

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  • Author(s): By:Courtney Columbus
  • Source:
    NPR: Blogs, July 18, 2017 Goats and Soda, 4pp
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    • Abstract:
      It's the famine that not enough people have heard about. An estimated 20 million people in four countries — Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen — are at risk of famine and starvation. And the word isn't getting out, says Justin Forsyth, a deputy executive director of UNICEF. Speaking with NPR's Audie Cornish on All Things Considered, he explained that politics and donor fatigue are two of the main causes...