Posted on 02/22/2017 5:15:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
The United Nations needs $4.4 billion by the end of March to prevent catastrophic hunger and famine in South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, yet just $90 million has been collected so far, Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday.
With over 20 million people at risk of starvation over the next six months and famine already declared in parts of South Sudan, “we are facing a tragedy,” Guterres said.
“We must avoid it becoming a catastrophe.”
Convening reporters for a briefing at the U.N. headquarters, Guterres amplified concerns that U.N. officials and humanitarian groups have expressed in recent weeks about the lack of food in the four nations. While they differ in many ways, their plights all are connected by a thread of violent conflict, Guterres noted. Drought is also a factor, particularly in Somalia. …
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If you need money, sell your building in NY.
If you feed them they just reproduce.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that they aren’t asking the Saudi’s to shell out the money.
Reality shows and scams often have artificial deadlines.
Why do I not hear he's giving half his salary?
Get it from your friends in Mehico.
As a recent Safe Auto insurance commercial stated: “Give a man a fish, and you will have one less fish.”
Simple solution. All UN bureaucrats donate their salaries to this humanitarian cause.
Get the Caliphate to pay for it. As if they even care.
How much $ is sitting around in the global warming fund?
Take it out of the Clinton Foundation.
By any means necessary.
So...what? They want us to give it to them?
I think not.
What would Angela Merkel do??
These areas have been starving my whole life. When will they do something different?
“If you feed them they just reproduce.”
Thomas Malthus, 1798.
Ask George Clooney and his buddies for it.
They don’t need money. They need to product things and sell them, like we do in the USA. Sending them money doesn’t help. If they would stop killing each other they might be able to eat.
Uh, get the dough from the Arabian Peninsula...
They are. They are overpopulating Europe to stop famine.
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