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Cape Town’s main water supply, at the Theewaterskloof Dam, is running dry, and the city may soon have to turn off its taps. Photograph from AP PUBLISHED February 2, 2018 Editor’s Note: On Monday, February 5, Cape Town officials announced that the city had gotten “a slight reprieve” and that “Day Zero” had…
A pastor in Prince George’s County, Md., denounced Trump’s vulgar remarks towards Haiti and African countries during a service attended by Vice President Pence on Jan. 14. (WUSA9) Like many people, the Rev. Maurice Watson issued a stern and very public rebuke of President Trump’s Oval Office comments about immigrants from “shithole countries.” But Watson’s…
END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Acutely malnourished child Sacdiyo Mohamed, 9 months old, is treated at Banadir hospital in Somalia on Saturday. Somalia’s government has declared the drought there a national disaster. Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP The world is facing its greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945, says the United Nations humanitarian coordinator, Stephen…