{"id":2978,"date":"2011-08-02T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2011-08-01T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:55:39","slug":"just-what-famine-stricken-somalians-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2978","title":{"rendered":"Just What Famine-Stricken Somalians Need!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase\u00a0<a title=\"@NYTOnIt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NYTOnIt\" target=\"_blank\">one of my favorite Twitter feeds<\/a>: &#8220;GUYS, there is a famine in the Horn of Africa, and the African Union is ON IT!&#8221;:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The African Union (AU) has announced it is to hold a summit meeting to pledge help for the victims of Somalia&#8217;s drought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The AU statement was made by its deputy chairman, Erasmus Mwencha, during a visit to the AU peacekeeping mission in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8216;I ask the African continent, from the northern cape to the southern cape, to look hard at how they can contribute to alleviating the suffering,&#8217; said Mr. Mwencha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But he gave no date for the summit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I am sure this comes as a tremendous relief to the hundreds of thousands of people who are at risk of starvation in the Horn of Africa. More <a title=\"Somalia Famine: African Union Calls &quot;Pledging Summit&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-14357126\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase\u00a0one of my favorite Twitter feeds: &#8220;GUYS, there is a famine in the Horn of Africa, and the African Union is ON IT!&#8221;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-famine","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-M2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}