Who made the wonderland so surreal?

Eat your heart out, Alice – Part II

Surreal ( deceptive, extortionate, psychopathic, genocidal)

The number of richest people in the world has more than doubled since the financial crisis, up from 793 in March 2009 to 1,645 in March 2014. Their  aggregate net worth is $6.4 trillion, up from $5.4 trillion just a year ago, according to Forbes.

AND, here are some more of the consequences:

• Sudan:
  • 6.6 million people (20% of the population) need humanitarian assistance (17/11/2014).
  • 2 million children under 5 are acutely malnourished (OCHA, Aug 2014).
  • 3.5 million people were projected to be in Crisis and Emergency phases of food insecurity by November 2014 (GIEWS, Jun. 2014).
• South Sudan:
  • 50,000 estimated killed in violence in South Sudan since December 2013 (ICG).
  • 1.4 million IDPs between Dec. 2013 and Sept. 2014 (OCHA).
  • 3.8 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance (OCHA, 30/10/24).
  • More than 1 million people in Crisis and Emergency phases of food insecurity October – December 2014 (FEWSNET, Nov. 2014).
  • From January to March 2015, 2.5 million people are projected to be in  Crisis and Emergency Phase including about half the population of Greater Upper Nile (IPC, Sept. 2014).

• Chad:
  • 5.5 million people, or 55% of the population, in Chad are affected by humanitarian crisis including 2.2 million children (UNICEF, Nov. 2014).
  • 2.6 million Chadians are estimated to be food insecure or severely food insecure (OCHA, 15/10/2014).

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• Eat your heart out, Alice! December 17, 2014