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# drought - Thursday 9 August, 2012
Bears break into sweet shop, cars searching for food amid US drought
An exceptionally dry summer has depleted bears’ usual food supplies of berries and vegetation – pushing them further into residential areas.
# drought - Saturday 21 July, 2012
Fires blaze across the Algarve in Portugal
Fires have hit the Madeira islands and the mainlands over the past 72 hours.
# drought - Thursday 31 May, 2012
‘I can catch Nicklaus’ – Tiger Woods
The former world No1 believes he can still equal the 18-Major record… despite not winning one since 2008.
# drought - Monday 28 May, 2012
North Korea reports serious drought
The communist country has had very little rain in the last month which threatens to damage crops as the country enters a critical planting season.
# drought - Monday 19 March, 2012
New Zealand braces itself for a drought… of Marmite
New Zealanders love the black stuff – Marmite, that is, rather than Guinness. As stocks of the salty yeast spread are running low, people are getting a little panicked.
# drought - Monday 12 March, 2012
Hosepipes to be banned in areas of UK
Extremely low rainfall and continuing dry conditions are leading to droughts in areas of the south and east.
# drought - Monday 20 February, 2012
Ireland gives €5 million in emergency funding to Sahel region
Ten million people are at risk from a growing food crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria.
# drought - Wednesday 31 August, 2011
Wildfires strike Texas and Oklahoma
The fires occurred following dry weather and high temperatures and led to evacuations from homes.
# drought - Friday 19 August, 2011
Column: Some of the malnourished children have bodies so swollen they look about to burst
A Somali coordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres tells the story of the forgotten tens of thousands trapped and starving to death within Somalia’s war-torn districts.
# drought - Tuesday 16 August, 2011
UN: Ten children dying each day at Somali refugee camp
Child mortality at a camp in Ethiopia has reached an “alarming” level, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
# drought - Thursday 11 August, 2011
Somali children reportedly recruited by extremists
The United Nations has warned that children are being targeted for recruitment by the Somali militant group who are working to overthrow the country’s unstable government.
# drought - Saturday 6 August, 2011
Drought forces town to recycle urine
A Texan town has been hit so hard by drought that it will begin recycling treated effluent and turning it into drinking water.
# drought - Friday 5 August, 2011
29,000 children ‘killed by Somalia famine’
The crisis in Somalia is worsening, with three new regions declared famine zones.
# drought - Tuesday 2 August, 2011
Somali refugees moved as camps overflow
The UN has begun to move people to into extended camps as the numbers of refugees swell – while aid agencies appeal for continued support to help battle the crisis.
# drought - Thursday 28 July, 2011
Column: The UN must brave up to terrorists to get aid to Somalia
Charity GOAL’s chief executive John O’Shea says that while agencies are trying to help refugees flooding out of Somalia, some four million people are trapped inside and facing death.
# drought - Monday 25 July, 2011
UN launches urgent appeal for donor help in East Africa
Some mothers have had to make the “horrifying choice of saving the strongest” of their children while leaving the weakest behind to die as starving families make the long, desperate trek to refugee camps, says the UN.
# drought - Friday 22 July, 2011
Nearly 800,000 children in Somalia face immediate death
Concern video shows extent of humanitarian crisis in refugee camps as militants threatening to ban return of aid agencies not already on the ground.
# drought - Thursday 21 July, 2011
‘It is much worse than people realise’: Mary Robinson visits Somalia
Such is the extent of the famine in parts of Somalia the US is to aid parts of the country controlled by Al-Shabab.
# drought - Sunday 17 July, 2011
After two years UN aid delivered to Islamist areas of Somalia
It’s the first time aid has been delivered to some parts of the country in two years
# drought - Friday 15 July, 2011
Ireland to give extra €1m in aid to Horn of Africa
Countries in East Africa are in the grip of the worst drought in 60 years, with millions facing starvation.
# drought - Thursday 14 July, 2011
“The people here show me the graves of children”: East Africa’s drought crisis
A photo-essay from Oxfam in Ethiopia and a first-hand account from a Concern worker in Somalia paint a stark picture of the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.
# drought - Wednesday 6 July, 2011
In pictures: A photo essay from war-torn Somalia
Striking images from Somalia, where the worst drought in the region for 60 years is affecting some 7 million people.
Take 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Militants lift aid ban to help Somalia drought victims
The powerful Islamist group Al-Shabab had previously placed a ban on aid from non-Muslim agencies to Somalia.
Aid agencies seek urgent help to counter Africa’s worst drought in decades
Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are close to yet another famine, after their driest period in around 60 years.
The 9 at 9: Wednesday
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# drought - Tuesday 24 May, 2011
Wildfires rage across eastern Russia
So far, 421 wildfires have been reported in eastern Russia over the past 24-hours – sparking fears of a repeat of last summer’s fires which killed dozens of people.
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