Thursday, June 07, 2012

News below the fold

North Korea: The Great Hunger 2...
Strategy page reports the rains are late, meaning a possible redux of the 1990's famine that killed a million people.

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and then there is the famine in Sudan....
food insecure people in that country data:

South Kordofan - 200,000 – 250,000 in SPLM-N areas; 150,000 –200,000 in GoS areas
Blue Nile - 100,000 – 150,000 in SPLM-N areas; 100,000 in GoS areas
Red Sea, North Kordofan, White Nile, and Kassala - 1 million
Abyei - 100,000 – 120,000
Total food insecure population - 4.7 million people



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