Without Urgent Humanitarian Intervention Famine Could Devastate Somalia Again By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The U.N. warned last month that all of the conditions are in place for famine to occur again in Somalia. Mark Lowcock, the under secretary general and emergency relief coordinator at the United Nations, says 2.2 million people could… Read more »
July 19, 2019
Warning Signs of Famine on Horizon for Somalia
Without Urgent Humanitarian Intervention Famine Could Devastate Somalia Again By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program The U.N. warned last month that all of the conditions are in place for famine to occur again in Somalia. Mark Lowcock, the under secretary general and emergency relief coordinator at the United Nations, says 2.2 million people could… Read more »
PHP partners with Hope Restoration South Sudan to improve food security and empower women and girls through farming By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program South Sudan is a very new country, gaining independence in 2011, after three decades of civil war between northern and southern Sudan. Unfortunately, South Sudan’s independence did not lead to… 
8.4 Million are at risk of starvation in Yemen By Eileen Schuhmann | Presbyterian Hunger Program It’s been weeks since the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered in the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Turkey. There has been so much attention, and rightly so, on the details of his suspected murder given that he was… 
Following years of war coupled with extreme drought, South Sudan is experiencing major disruptions in food production and supply resulting in extreme food shortages and malnutrition. According to USAID “An estimated 5.5 million people—nearly half of South Sudan’s population—will face life threatening hunger by July [2017].” In emergency disaster situations such as famine, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) partners with ACT Alliance to…