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Bone-dry region of Ethiopia, a dead zone.
Aid agencies have warned that hundreds of millions of people around the world are threatened by a lack of food and water due to severe weather conditions and wars in early 2016. The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Thursday that about
795 million people across the world, 98 percent of them from developing countries, were going hungry as a result of the current global situation.
The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) also warned that
droughts and floods would be strong in March, as the El Niño weather phenomenon was expected to peak in the start of 2016. In a similar statement, Oxfam's Humanitarian Director Jane Cocking stated that millions of people in countries such as Ethiopia, Haiti and Papua New Guinea were already feeling the effects of
"drought and crop failure."
Some 10.2 million in Ethiopia's population of 94 million are in need of humanitarian assistance due to weather conditions in 2016, while some three million are in serious need of aid in Malawai, where they are struggling with drought. South Africa has also declared disaster in a number of areas. According to Oxfam, two million people across Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua are already in need of food aid after drought and erratic rains.
The aid agencies all urged more funding and assistance to the nations in need in 2016. This comes as figures indicate that
more than 60 million people have been forced to flee their homes as a result of war and persecution in countries, particularly Syria, where over 250,000 have so far lost their lives to the militancy that broke out there in 2011. According to the WFP, some
7.6 million people from Yemen's 24 million population have been going without food for weeks.
Comment: The culture of the United State is saturated with violence. Given the U.S. government's almost continuous series of wars and acts of military intervention since 1941, it seems likely that it surpasses all rivals when it comes to international violence. This record is paralleled on the domestic front, where the United States has more guns and gun-related deaths than any other country. This is the natural result when psychopaths take control of society and their conscienceless values fully permeate the culture.