UN body warns of looming famine in Madagascar, children at risk modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
30 april 2021 - 05:31:07 MA Panafrican News Agency
Southern Madagascar on brink of famine, warns WFP
Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Starving Malagasy forced to eat leaves, locusts for survival msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A man considered by millions of Venezuelans to be the “doctor of the poor” is to be beatified, a step towards sainthood in the Catholic Church.
Jose Gregorio Hernandez will be beatified on Friday during a ceremony in Venezuela’s capital. The ceremony will be the culmination of 72 years of effort by Venezuela’s Catholics.
Mr Hernandez was a doctor, university professor and researcher before his death in 1919.
Initial plans called for a ceremony at a stadium, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced organisers to change venues, limit attendance to fewer than 300 people mostly priests and nuns and leave most Venezuelans to watch the event on television.
The donation to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) was received by the Country Director El-Khidir Daloum.
He says the contribution will cover another one to two months of humanitarian assistance at a time they have a US$86 million funding shortfall.
Ambassador Ha Byung-Kyoo says Uganda’s progressive refugee model is appreciated internationally.
The donation will be distributed in the settlements of Adjumani, Imvepi, Kiryandongo, Palorinya and Rhino Camp to meet the refugees’ basic cereal needs in August and part of September.