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Save The Children Wake Up Bob Marley to Save Starving Children in Africa

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DONATE LINK: http://bit.ly/nVt23n DOWNLOAD TRACK: http://bit.ly/o96urw Millions of children are facing starvation right now -- this doesn't have to happen. Save The Children has launched an emergency aid response in Africa. Please watch this video, share with friends and download Bob Marley's single 'High Tide or Low Tide' with all proceeds going to the East Africa food crisis appeal. YOU CAN HELP NOW . Tweet

London is burning, but children are still dying in Somalia

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London riots. Photo Credit: The Telegraph Is the Arab Spring of Blood spreading to the UK as London is engulfed in the inferno of arsonists and looters on rampage? But as London is burning hundreds of children are still dying in the famine ravaging Somalia. Who was the 29 years old bloke that was killed in exchange of gunfire with police in Tottenham in the twilight of last Saturday? Would the death of that man be enough to enrage the hundreds of lunatics burning and looting in Birmingham, Canning Town, Manchester, Salford and still spreading? Well, the pangs of dying children are echoing from Somalia. Releases displayed in Africa/Lagos time 8 Aug 2011 14:58 Dr. Jill Biden Arrives in Kenya to Vi...

UNICEF: Horn of Africa is a "Crisis for Child Survival"

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Hunger is eating up the poor children in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya while children in America and other developed nations are over fed and obese. ~ Orikinla Osinachi, Nigerian poet and blogger 22 Jul 2011 16:15 Africa/Lagos UNICEF: Horn of Africa is a "Crisis for Child Survival" Children's agency massively scaling up operations to respond to urgent needs PR Newswire NEW YORK, July 22, 2011 NEW YORK, July 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With famine now declared in two regions of Southern Somalia and malnutrition rates at emergency levels in arid and semi-arid regions across the Horn of Africa, nearly 720,000 children are at risk of death without urgent assistance. In total 2.23 million children in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are estimated to be acutely malnourished. "This summer has been an unspeakable nightmare for millions of children in the Horn of Africa," said President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Caryl Stern. "We cannot control the weath...

40 Killed in Christmas Day Pipeline Explosion in Nigeria

At Least 40 Killed in Christmas Day Blast at Nigerian Pipeline Explosion occurred as villagers were trying to scoop fuel from ruptured pipeline that caught fire Two Foreign Aid Workers Seized in Northern Somalia Women working for Doctors Without Borders international aid group seized in port town of Bossasso, Wednesday by gang armed with machine guns Christmas Lull in Fighting Spurs Aid Workers in Eastern DRC International Rescue Committee hopes to reach Rutshuru District, where many rape victims reported Egypt Reports 16th Human Death From Bird Flu Authorities say 25-year old woman died on the day she was diagnosed with bird flu Campaign Ends Ahead of Kenya’s Election Voters head to polls Thursday, to elect new president Uganda Opposition Leader Denies Rumors of His Own Demise