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BBC News
April 7, 2018
The Horn of Africa expert Alex de Waal argues that the crisis in the Gulf has an impact way beyond Somalia. "This has the potential to deepen the fractures across the whole region. The Arab states, including Egypt, are trampling across the painstakingly built norms and institutions for Africa's peacemakingÃâà...
New Internationalist
April 4, 2018
The industry has always had its own engaged critics. Alex De Waal, a writer with a long activist engagement in the Horn of Africa, has neatly summed up the charges levelled against humanitarian action as 'uneven professional standards, wastage and an exaggerated sense of self-importance' along withÃâà...
Harvard Political Review
April 3, 2018
In an interview with HPR, Alex De Waal, the executive director of the World Peace Foundation, categorically deemed the East African states “secondary partners with the least role in Nile water politics.” Unlike Egypt, they do not rely heavily on the Nile water because they receive adequate annual rainfall.
PBS NewsHour
March 3, 2018
South Sudan and Yemen are at the brink of a severe food crisis, with over 400,000 malnourished children in Yemen, the United Nations estimates. Alex de Waal, a professor at the Tufts Fletcher School who spent years in the Horn of Africa, talks to Megan Thompson about his new book, “Mass Starvation:Ãâà...
Independent.ie
March 1, 2018
YES, it's true: among the many needless cruelties and stupidities of Brexit is that it increases the risk of famine. Famine is a political crime: the people of Ireland need no reminder of this basic fact of history. Starvation isn't an accident or an act of God. Don't be misled by those who try to blame the weather orÃâà...
Times Higher Education (THE)
January 31, 2018
“At least one hundred million people died in great and calamitous famines in the 140 years from 1870 to 2010,” according to Alex de Waal, “and almost all of them died before 1980.” But in the past seven years there's been a worrying resurgence of famine. In Yemen, Somalia and Nigeria, food scarcity hasÃâà...
NPR
January 19, 2018
The author, Alex de Waal, a professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, is an old hand on this subject. For three decades he's been writing about famines — and in several cases assisting with the response. But in an interview with NPR, de Waal says this latest take — the book is called MassÃâà...
The Guardian
November 23, 2017
British risk complicity in Yemen 'famine crime', says Alex de Waal. Africa analyst believes UN inaction makes ... Britain is in danger of becoming complicit in the use of starvation as a weapon of war in Yemen, academic and author Alex de Waal has said. “The UK and the US, and others on the securityÃâà...
The Guardian
November 22, 2017
Twenty years after publishing an influential book on starvation as a crime against humanity, Alex de Waal returned to the subject to find that political and military elites continue to act with scant regard for human life. Yet since famine is manmade, political decisions could end it for good, says the executiveÃâà...
London Review of Books
June 7, 2017
In its primary use, the verb 'to starve' is transitive: it's something people do to one another, like torture or murder. Mass starvation as a consequence of the weather has very nearly disappeared: today's famines are all caused by political decisions, yet journalists still use the phrase 'man-made famine' as ifÃâà...
