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Showing posts with label Iraq crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq crisis. Show all posts

Monday, April 18, 2016

Food for Peace to the rescue in Iraq

Iraqis displaced by the war with ISIS are desperate for food. The United States Food for Peace program has come through again to help these war victims.

Read the full article at Examiner.

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

WFP reaches Haditha and Al Baghdadi in Iraq

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday distributed food in two besieged Iraqi cities for the first time in months. Around 70,000 Iraqis in Haditha and Al Baghdadi of the central governorate of Anbar received WFP rations.

Read the full article at Examiner.

Monday, August 10, 2015

Starving Iraqi war victims have food rations cut

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today that food rations have been reduced for Iraqi war victims. Facing low funding, WFP had no choice but to cut back on the food supplied to the displaced Iraqis.

Read the full article at Examiner.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Wall Street Journal Letter on Iraq Crisis

Close to three million Iraqis have been displaced since last year. They depend on food aid from the international community.

See my letter in the Wall Street Journal.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Iraq Strategy Should Also Fight Hunger

President Obama has admitted the lack of a complete strategy for war-torn Iraq. This is true in more ways than one. Food aid for starving Iraqis is being tragically overlooked.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is being forced to reduce rations for some Iraqi war victims because of low funding. If WFP does not get more funding soon, food aid for 1.8 million displaced Iraqis may come to a halt.

Read the full article at The Huffington Post.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Hunger in Syria and Iraq

We must also remember the other enemy Iraqis and Syrians are facing: hunger.

See my full letter in the New York Times section Helping the Victims in Syria and Iraq. It is the second letter from the top.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

WFP concerned about hunger in ISIL-held Mosul

Iraqis trapped in the city of Mosul, which was captured by the ISIL terrorists, are also at risk of grave hunger

Read the full article at Examiner.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Huffington Post Column on Hunger in Iraq

My latest Huffington Post column is on the hunger crisis in war-torn Iraq. At the end of the article is also a link to my interview with UN World Food Programme officer Chloe Cornish in Iraq.

Read the article at The Huffington Post.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Hunger in Iraq: An interview with Chloe Cornish of the UN World Food Program

Chloe Cornish, a WFP officer, recently visited Erbil City in Northern Iraq, where many civilians have fled for their lives. In the following interview, Cornish talks about the hunger emergency in Iraq and how WFP is helping these war victims.

Read the interview at Examiner.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

My Cleveland Plain Dealer article on the Iraq Hunger Crisis

The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper just published my opinion piece on the Iraq hunger crisis.

Please check out the article at Cleveland.com.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Iraqis facing winter, hunger and ISIS

The United Nations, in a new report, says that over two million Iraqis urgently need food and other humanitarian aid.

Read the full article at Examiner.