| June 28, 2008 | - President George W. Bush announced that North Korea was off the “state sponsors of terrorism” list. North Korea then blew up the obsolete nuclear cooling tower at Yongbyon and took delivery of a U.S. ship carrying 38,000 tons of food; the nuclear and food deals, said officials, were unrelated.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 9, 2008 | - South Asia was suffering from severe food shortages.
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BBCnews.com
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| July 16, 2006 | -
Saddam Hussein's
hunger strike entered its ninth day, though he still drinks sweet coffee and other liquids.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| June 12, 2006 | - Three detainees at the American prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, committed suicide using nooses made from clothing and bedsheets. “They have no regard for human life, neither ours nor their own,” said Navy Rear-Admiral Harry Harris. “I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us.” All three men had been in the camp for about four years and had recently engaged in a hunger strike.
| Source:
Scotsman
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| January 26, 2006 | - A starving woman in Kangundo, Kenya, placed a curse on God as she hit a cooking pot with a stick, then died in her sleep.
| Source:
Reuters via MSNBC
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| January 15, 2006 | - In Kenya, 2.5 million people were close to starvation; police raids showed that those who were supposed to be handing out food were instead selling it.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 24, 2005 | - In India a 12-year-old girl killed herself after her mother told her that she could not afford to give her a single rupee for lunch.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 9, 2005 | - The United Nations warned that 2.5 million people will die of hunger in Niger if the country does not receive foreign food aid immediately. President Mamadou Tandja responded that “the people of Niger look well-fed.”
| Source 1:
AlertNet
Source 2:
BBC News
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| April 14, 2005 | - The United Nations released a video game called “Food Force” that lets players pretend they are feeding the starving.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 30, 2005 | - An investigation determined that the rate of malnutrition in Iraqi children under five has nearly doubled since the U.S. invaded.
| Source:
Aljazeera.com
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| December 24, 2004 | - The United States cut back on international food aid, a change that will affect five to seven million people in Indonesia, Malawi, Madagascar, and other countries.
| Source:
IHT
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| December 23, 2004 | - A study found that the number of starving
Iraqi children has nearly doubled in the last 21 months.
| Source:
USA Today
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| November 13, 2004 | - Civilians there were finding it hard to come by medical supplies, and few clinics remained open. “People are eating flour because there's no proper food,” one refugee reported.
| Source:
Al Jazeera
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| April 9, 2004 | - People were dying of hunger in Zimbabwe.
| Source:
Agence France-Presse
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| January 13, 2004 | - King Mswati III of Swaziland ordered nine palaces to be built for his wives, even though many people in his country are starving.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| December 19, 2003 | -
Homelessness and hunger were on the rise in American cities.
| Source:
New York Times
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