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1/2023 Famine: hunger hits millions of people in Somalia after 5t consecutive rainy season fails

Updated: Jan 11

Red-spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax)

Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA

4/6/2022 2A7A4154aaa


“This society will have you angrier at an unhoused person stealing $5 to eat than a guy in a suit stealing $5 million to buy a third house.”


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“A loving god

Creates mankind in his own image then drowns them because they are imperfect.”


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Cambridge University Press:

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“Bias in artificial intelligence can maintain and exacerbate systemic racism in our institutions — including healthcare.

We need transparency and accountability to ensure already-marginalized communities aren’t further harmed by this technology.”

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“Somalia hunger crisis raises a question for the world: When is a famine a famine?

The declaration is made only rarely — and history suggests it matters”

“It was not until this century that a common definition of famine was adopted by the world’s humanitarians — now under a spotlight as hunger stalks millions of people in Somalia. A fifth consecutive rainy season has fallen far short of the levels needed for farming and for sustaining human life, a drought that comes amid an ongoing civil conflict.”


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