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English By Lisa Schlein Share on Facebook Print this page GENEVA - The U.N. World Food Program warns five years of recurrent drought and the COVID-19 pandemic have brought southern Madagascar to its knees, with hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants struggling to find enough food to eat. Lack of rain and poor harvests have left more than one-third of southern Madagascar’s population short of food, not knowing from where their next meal w...

By: Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response At the dawn of 2021, I find myself looking back at what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Foods Program was able to accomplish in 2020, a historic year marked by unprecedented challenges in both our personal and professional lives.  I’m struck by how tirelessly our team members have worked together to help ensure the continuity of the food supply chain and to help keep food workers and consumers alike safe during the...

Staff of Juneau Community Foundation Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau Community Foundation has announced the third round of grants for its Covid-19 response fund. Executive Director Amy Skilbred says $50,000 goes to the Juneau Care Meals Program operated by the United Way of Southeast Alaska. Nearly $22,000 is for the Safe Space for Food Program operated by Shepherd of the Valley and Resurrection Lutheran Churches. Theres a $15,000 grant to supp...

People walk past a billboard announcing the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party along a main street of the Central District in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Jan. 6. (AP Photo) SEOUL--Already suffering under stringent U.S. and U.N. sanctions, North Korea’s economy faced a double whammy of severe floods and the coronavirus pandemic this year, which prompted Pyongyang to shut its border with China and ditch outside aid. Kicking off a rare congress on Tuesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said h...

World Food Programme Executive Director David M. Beasley (middle) and U.S. Ambassador Kip Tom visit South Sudan on July 23, 2019. | WFP/Giulio dAdamo The head of the World Food Program believes that 2021 could see “famines of biblical proportions” as the economic struggles of COVID-19 may hamper global responses to food shortages caused by military conflicts, the rise of Islamic extremism and locust infestations.  In an interview late last year with The Christian Post during a visit to Wa...

SIERRA LEONE ( MissionNewswire) Salesian missionaries with St. Augustine’s Parish, located in the Dworzark community within Freetown, Sierra Leone, have partially completed construction of a new church thanks to donor funding provided by Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco. As the number of parishioners and the size of the community have increased, Salesian missionaries embarked on a multi-phase project to expand their outgrown church. St. Augustine’s P...

The Diplomat has removed paywall restrictions on our coverage of the COVID–19 crisis. In this photo provided by the North Korean government, the crowd look on the flag-hoisting ceremony, marking the New Year, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang on January 1, 2021. Credit: Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP Advertisement North Korea, one of the most isolated countries in the world, continues to insist that it has successfully grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, with no corona...

A trio of promising coronavirus vaccines promises to plunge a stake through the dark pandemic-riddled heart of 2020. That’s the good news. Less encouraging is the reality that our national resolve will continue to be tested well into 2021 as a comprehensive inoculation rollout is likely only by summer. In the meantime, winter is coming. COVID-19 cases and deaths are skyrocketing nationwide, taxing hospital staff and facilities. More school disruptions seem inevitable, vexing students and frus...

Food aid arrives at Ethiopian refugee camps in Tigray: UN By (0) Food aid was delivered to Eritrean refugees in camps in Ethiopias troubled northern region of Tigray, the United Nations said Monday. Photo by Zerihun Sewunet/UNICEF Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Some transportation lines in northern Ethiopias troubled Tigray region have partially reopened, and about 25,000 Eritrean refugees sheltering in two camps have received food aid for the first time since mid-October, the United Nations announced Mon...

25,000 refugees in Tigray region receive urgent UN food supplies December 28, 2020 File photo shows the Tigray region facing some of the toughest development challenges in Ethiopia. — courtesy UNICEF/Zerihun Sewunet GENEVA — Some 25,000 Eritrean refugees, sheltering in two camps in the unsettled Tigray region of Ethiopia, have received desperately needed food aid for the first time since mid-October. "Families, women, men, children — even ne...