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As the crisis in Somalia worsens more nations are sending government officials to see for themselves the need. What they are seeing with their own eyes tears at their hearts knowing that the children they touch most likely will not survive the ordeal.
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Virginia police stumbled upon a caged girl who was naked and covered in bed sores and feces during a robbery investigation last Thursday.
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Residents of one of the main refugee camps in Darfur, Sudan, are facing starvation as food distribution runs out, a result of a ban on 13 NGO by the Sudanese government following an incident in the camp.
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The United Nations food agency announced that they were going to cut aid to Yemen because international funds were running dry. This latest news could cut food rations by half, leaving 3.4 million Yemenis to starve.
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As extreme winter temperatures fell as low as -50 c nearly 2 million head of livestock have died. Thousands of families in Mongolia could be facing a food and economic insecurity.
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On Nov. 14, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf began a 24-hour hunger strike. On Sunday he will be joined by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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One person died and 6 others were treated in the hospital after eating poisonous frogs. This incident is not the first and is blamed on extreme poverty.
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Child cruelty, killing, rape and endangerment have regularly been on the news. In a case out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a mother starved her disabled daughter to death. Cases like this raise questions about public responsibility.
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The East-African country of Kenya only has a paltry 1.2 million bags of the staple food maize (corn) in stock - enough to feed its people for only the next two weeks. Ten-million people risk hunger and Kenya has declared a national emergency.
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A Palestinian mother went out of her refugee camp in Gaza in search for food for her starving children, instead was killed by the Israeli missile attack.
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Starvation Headlines
Scientists have shown how some cells in the body can repel attacks from HIV by starving the virus of the building blocks of life.
 Experts say the slow formation of winter ice on Hudson Bay this year has pushed some polar bears to the brink of starvation.
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Women rush to a feeding centre in Mogadishu. The UN has declared famine throughout Somalia's southern regions and UN agencies have stepped up their support as drought and insecurity have led to a massive displacement of people.
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