Famine News

Heavy rains have again hit several parts of Uganda, leading to two deaths, destruction of property and displacement of at least 15,000, people.

Halina Matwijiw was six the year she lived through the Ukrainian famine in the fall of 1932 and the winter of 1933.

Those who survived knew that the famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine was a deliberate, politically-engineered catastrophe whose victims numbered in the many millions yet few dared even whisper about this ...

Out of a possible 5 $ There is a sense of intimidation when trying a new restaurant, especially when it is one that serves something way outside the norm.

Dmitry Medvedev sent a message to his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko in which he harshly criticized his approach to famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933. Medvedev also refused to participate in the ...

By Paul Busharizi The State of Uganda Population Report 2008 was released this week.

Stephan Horlatsch will never forget being 12-years-old and finding his relatives who starved to death during the famine in the Ukraine.

President Dmitry Medvedev has addressed a message to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, the Kremlin Press Service reported on Friday.

AMONG THE many wonders expected from an Obama administration, if Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times is to be believed, is ending "the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life." ...

People are fleeing their homeland with the promise of new lives and jobs - only to find themselves forced into lives of slavery and prostitution in China.

'It had its beginning in the year 1619 when the first Negro slaves landed on the shores of this nation.

It rained in most parts of Zimbabwe last week, signalling the official start of the planting season in this troubled country.

Last Saturday, on a balmy night, four blocks separated two very different images of the village of Patchogue.

Among the many wonders to be expected from an Obama administration, if Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times is to be believed, is ending "the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American ...

GENEVA : The U.N. food agency will double the number of Zimbabweans it feeds because of the famine in the impoverished African country, officials said Tuesday.

YONKERS - When they heard the toning of the bell, people stepped outside to find two black coffins being carried outside their doors, led by a procession of about 100 Ukrainians and Ukrainian-Americans. ...

A pioneering Welsh journalist who alerted the world to widespread famine in Stalin's Soviet Union is to receive a posthumous award from the Ukrainian government, Wales Online reported.

Cooper Union removed a banner showing a 1953 Picasso portrait of Stalin from the facade of its historic Foundation Building on East Seventh Street.