While reporters watch Trump’s tweets, famines kill hundreds in parts of Africa

A 2007 U.S. study found that for every one or two people who die in an earthquake or volcano overseas, 38,920 people must die of food shortage to receive the same media coverage.

International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured on Parliament Hill last week, announced last month the government would match donations for famine relief to registered Canadian charities up to June 30. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY JOHN LONGHURST

June 21, 2017

WINNIPEG—In late May, the government of Canada announced its Famine Relief Fund. The fund was launched to galvanize Canadians into helping the estimated 20 million people facing starvation in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and other countries in Africa. The announcement generated a bit of attention...

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