11-23-2011 Reasons to be Thankful: The Somali Drought

1.       Somali Drought

a.       CBBC: Children of the Drought - http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/14313437

b.      ABC News: Somalia Famine: How to Help - http://abcnews.go.com/International/somalia-famine/story?id=14088327

c.       Somalia Famine Refugees Tell Their Stories - http://abcnews.go.com/International/somalia-famine/story?id=14088327

d.      Horn of Africa Drought slide show - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8663176/Horn-of-Africa-drought-starving-children-suffer-during-famine-in-Somalia.html

e.      The Economist: Famine Forcast - http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/disaster-east-africa?fsrc=rss

f.        Somalia Famine: somewhat graphic photos - http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/08/03/captured-somalia-famine/4538/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-blogs-captured+%28Denver+Post%3A+Blogs%3A+Captured+Photo+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

g.       Breaking News English Activities - http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/1107/110721-somalia_food_crisis.html

h.      AP: East Africa Famine - http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2011/east-africa-famine/

i.         NYT: Famine in Somalia - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/08/03/world/africa/Somalia-Famine-Index.html?ref=famine  and accompanying lesson plan - http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/crisis-in-the-horn-of-africa-understanding-the-famine-in-somalia/?nl=learning&emc=learninga1

j.        BBC: East Africa Hunger Crisis - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14248278  

k.       Battling Hunger in the Horn of Africa - http://horn.wfp.org/main.html

l.         Time: Famine in Somalia - http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/25/collateral-crisis-the-catastrophic-famine-in-somalia/#1

m.    The Guardian - Dadaab: City of Refugees - http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/interactive/2011/sep/06/famine-somalia-dadaab-refugee-interactive