US system predicting global famine offline amid Trump freeze

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The United States' system for monitoring famine globally has been taken offline amid President Donald Trump's order for a 90-day freeze on nearly all US foreign assistance.

The Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet) was established after the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, as part of a worldwide effort to prevent a repeat of its devastating impact.
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It has been used to try to target aid during the current famine in Sudan as the war continues there.
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Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior official at USAID, described the system as "the single best resource" in the world for food insecurity prediction, adding that in 2011 it saw the famine coming in Somalia months ahead of time.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9p7n8vl9o

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What you get at https://fews.net/ (where, for instance, reliefweb links to) is

"Notice
The FEWS NET Website, the FEWS NET Learning Platform, and the FEWS NET Data Warehouse and Data Explorer are currently unavailable."

So, yeah, they're killing people now.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Should some entity file some FOIA requests?

This can't go on forever. Or even 2 months.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Killing people is a feature, not a bug.

Trump killed almost a million Americans refusing to deal with the covid pandemic.
It means nothing to him and in fact he may relish the power of life and death with his signature.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Stupid man is now taking away farmers markets and market forecasting systems

Kill more farms so Big Money bros can buy 'em up cheap to corner the market on food.

Enough wealth inequality for you yet?

[Lovie777]

4. Fake Christians................

republicans are just plain evil.

[SheltieLover]

5. Kicking!

[ananda]

6. So famine is OK as long as it's not publicized

Sheesh

[BadgerMom]

7. Just like COVID.

If cases weren’t reported, they didn’t happen in Trump’s diminished brain. At least that’s what he thought he could convince us of.

[C0RI0LANUS]

8. "Nothing bad happens when I'm President!"

[Tweedy]

9. These dullards think famine

is a wondrous thing, did you not know?
They are channeling every stupid thing.

Somebody, somewhere failed us all by failing to teach these fools about the plague and famine caused by Commodus’ flunkies. Does it matter if it was Cleander or Papirius Dios who tried to corner the Egyptian grain market and starved Rome? Both were loyalist Commodus adherents.

The 4 horseman of the apocalypse ride together and they do not care how illustrious your birth was. History is full of their terrible doings.

Thanks a lot GOP! These moves, unless stopped quickly, will make everyone cry even the MAGA kakistocracy.