Tag: Sahel

  • Nation & World

    Send cash, not goods, and other suggestions for giving

    There is no shortage of global suffering and need, says the director of Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, but you can still help.

    7 minutes
    Michael VanRooyen .
  • Nation & World

    In the end, Somali famine preventable

    Despite historical links to natural disasters, the modern world’s global food web means that famines today are created more by man than by nature. Officials say a famine just ending in Somalia was caused by a failure of international early warning systems and the local Al-Shabaab militia blocking food aid.

    5 minutes