Di Un impiegato in favela

Monguno, Nigeria- Women wait for a food distribution to commence at the Government Girls Secondary School IDP camp in Monguno, Nigeria on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. Very little aid has reached those in need in Borno State, Nigeria where it is estimated that over 3 million people have been affected in this long running conflict. The town of Monguno which houses 60,000 people is not hosting over 140,000 internally displaced people. (Jane Hahn for the Washington Post)

E intanto, impegnati in altre marce di pasqua, mentre ci preoccupiamo del rischio di nuove guerre, qui veramente rischiamo di non vederci più: vediamo sfocato, non vediamo molte persone, folle intere in fuga, nella disperazione, per sfuggire agli stermini per fame e per fuoco d’armi. La guerra è in corso: oltre che in Siria e in Iraq, anche almeno in Afghanistan, in Yemen, in Somalia, in Sud Sudan, nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Nella Repubblica del Centrafrica, in Nigeria (e Niger, Ciad e Camerun), in Mali, in Libia. Segnalo un articolo del Washington Post che riassume alcune di queste crisi.

“Our world produces enough food to feed all its inhabitants. When one region is suffering severe hunger, global humanitarian institutions, though often cash-strapped, are theoretically capable of transporting food and averting catastrophe.
But this year, South Sudan slipped into famine, and Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen are each on the verge of their own. Famine now threatens 20 million people — more than at any time since World War II. As defined by the United Nations, famine occurs when a region’s daily hunger-related death rate exceeds 2 per 10,000 people.”

Da leggere e da guardare, eccolo: “Starving to death”. Qui sotto una galleria di immagini estratte dall’articolo (attenzione: possono urtare la sensibilità di alcuni).

Sud Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen

Eight years of terror create a nightmare in northeastern Nigeria

Monguno, Nigeria- Women wait for a food distribution to commence at the Government Girls Secondary School IDP camp in Monguno, Nigeria on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. Very little aid has reached those in need in Borno State, Nigeria where it is estimated that over 3 million people have been affected in this long running conflict. The town of Monguno which houses 60,000 people is not hosting over 140,000 internally displaced people. (Jane Hahn for the Washington Post)

Hamadu Husseiny, 28, searches for beans that have fallen during a food distribution in Monguno. (Photos by Jane Hahn for The Washington Post)

A drought in Somalia, a land awash with guns

A malnourished child is fed a special formula by her mother at a regional hospital in Baidoa town. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)

Somali security forces patrol the scene of a suicide car bomb blast on Aug. 30, 2016. in Mogadishu. Al-Shabab jihadists aligned with al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the blast.(Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images)

War and famine along the White Nile, in South Sudan

Soldiers of the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) celebrate while standing in trenches in Lelo, outside Malakal on Oct. 16, 2016.

Agop Manut (11 months), who suffers acute malnutrition and respiratory distress, is assisted at the clinic run by Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Aweil. Images by Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images

Civil war leaves Yemen splintered and under siege

aida Ahmad Baghili, an 18-year-old Yemeni, sits in a wheelchair at the Al-Thawra Hospital in Hodeidah, where she is receiving treatment for severe malnutrition. (AFP/Getty Images)

The legs of a malnourished boy who was being treated last year at a medical center in Sanaa, Yemen. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

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