With disease rampant and hunger spreading, this is a humanitarian disaster comparable to that in Sudan's Darfur region or in Somalia.
Fifteen heads of state from across southern Africa will try again soon to resolve Zimbabwe's festering political crisis, now dragging into its eighth month since disputed elections, as hunger spreads among millions of people across the country.
As violence spikes, hunger spreads, and their country unravels, the youth of Venezuela must decide whether to join the resistance at home or build their lives abroad.
If the case is, as critics say, an effort to dismantle the Kurdish political community, it is working; the proof is that the hunger strike spread from prison to parliament before it ended.
Dr. Friedmann argues that there is a Malthusian unsustainability to the way big agriculture is practiced, that it degrades genetic diversity and the environment so much that it will eventually reach a tipping point and hunger will spread.
Bugg's skiffle-billy roots remain, but they benefit from a confidence upgrade on the full-pelt opening tracks, which lay into Twitter ("There's a Beast and We All Feed It") and, on "Slumville Sunrise", reiterate his hunger to spread his wings ("This place is just not for me") beyond his birthplace.
After the hunger strikes spread throughout Guantánamo and aroused both international attention and a renewed push by Obama to close the infamous detention center, the Guantánamo Bay military command stopped releasing even basic information about the strikes it had previously made public.
Hunger is spreading fast as farmers die leaving crops rotting in fields.
Tourism and foreign investment is drying up here and hunger is spreading across the country.
On April 13, with the hunger strike spreading, the military raided the prison and put the detainees back in solitary.
