Today, people in East Africa are continuing to starve as the world continues to look on. According to the website latimes.com, humanitarian group were becoming worried for the sake of others lives as they fall short to droughts and war. Specifically in the countries of South Sudan and Ethiopia, there is a continuing struggle for outside groups to help stop the starvation for shortage of food. One of the main problems that the drought caused was the failure in the ability to grow and maintain crops. With the drought destroying crops in Ethiopia over the past 60 years, the help in that country has doubled. Many would ask the question of why it’s still going on, unfortunately the starvation of many are looked upon as it seen not to be a serious
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McDonough stated, “There are people who are – right now—facing catastrophic levels if hunger” (McDonough 8). While others are overlooking these issues, it has become difficult to measure how bad things have gotten. In the article “People are starving in East Africa”, there are over 3 million people facing starvation, and of that number there are approximately 400,000 people in emergency situations. With 400,000 being in emergency situation, there are approximately 40,000 in a catastrophe. In providing some statistics, South Sudan has approximately 11 million people living there, and out of the 11 million people, 5 million are food secured. That leaves a total of 6 million people who are facing problems against food. In bringing the new year of 2016, the food crisis is in fact getting worse and not any better. In Ethiopia, according to McDonough many were acutely malnourished due to them not eating on a regular basis. This number ranged from 2-2.2 million people and there was only a record of 5% funds that were raised to help them. To many of the people the number of funds doesn’t seem to be working. Want to know …show more content…
The conflict started between two rivals, which eventually came to a head at the end of 2013. Two dozen of the armed group threatened to ruin main trade roads cutting off food supplies. With this threat, the price of food increased and it left many families unable to afford it. McDonough efforts to try and negotiate something with actors, but the armed groups refused to provide food security. Many people feared that if food was brought to them they would become the target of people with guns. The fear that lived within the people was real and was at an all time high during this point. In the end without peace, the crisis for humanitarian in South Sudan will most likely continue to decrease and take the lives of many. It’s going to take more than a few donors to help this issue, but with persistence it can be
McDonough stated, “There are people who are – right now—facing catastrophic levels if hunger” (McDonough 8). While others are overlooking these issues, it has become difficult to measure how bad things have gotten. In the article “People are starving in East Africa”, there are over 3 million people facing starvation, and of that number there are approximately 400,000 people in emergency situations. With 400,000 being in emergency situation, there are approximately 40,000 in a catastrophe. In providing some statistics, South Sudan has approximately 11 million people living there, and out of the 11 million people, 5 million are food secured. That leaves a total of 6 million people who are facing problems against food. In bringing the new year of 2016, the food crisis is in fact getting worse and not any better. In Ethiopia, according to McDonough many were acutely malnourished due to them not eating on a regular basis. This number ranged from 2-2.2 million people and there was only a record of 5% funds that were raised to help them. To many of the people the number of funds doesn’t seem to be working. Want to know …show more content…
The conflict started between two rivals, which eventually came to a head at the end of 2013. Two dozen of the armed group threatened to ruin main trade roads cutting off food supplies. With this threat, the price of food increased and it left many families unable to afford it. McDonough efforts to try and negotiate something with actors, but the armed groups refused to provide food security. Many people feared that if food was brought to them they would become the target of people with guns. The fear that lived within the people was real and was at an all time high during this point. In the end without peace, the crisis for humanitarian in South Sudan will most likely continue to decrease and take the lives of many. It’s going to take more than a few donors to help this issue, but with persistence it can be