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By the end of 2022, more than 8 million Somalis were in need of food assistance. [10] In February 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported a 20% rise in food prices since February 2021. [11] The war further pushed this increase to 40% in March 2022 but was reduced to 18% by January 2023. [5]
The President of India is the supreme commander of the nation's armed forces; with 1.45 million active troops, they compose the world's second-largest military. It comprises the Indian Army, the Indian Navy, the Indian Air Force, and the Indian Coast Guard. [291] The official Indian defence budget for 2011 was US$36.03 billion, or 1.83% of GDP ...
This List of SDG targets and indicators provides a complete overview of all the targets and indicators for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. [1][2] The global indicator framework for Sustainable Development Goals was developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) and agreed upon at the 48th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission held in March 2017.
Approximately 1-1.5 million Circassians were killed, not discriminating between women, elderly or children and upon order of the Tsar, most of the Muslim population was deported, mainly to the Ottoman Empire, causing the exile of another 1.5 million Circassians and others.
From top left, clockwise: COVID-19 became a global pandemic in 2020 and dominated the early part of the decade, as the disease and the virus that causes it were deemed an international public health emergency until 2023; A Ukrainian tank driving in the Donetsk region during the Russo-Ukrainian War; A U.S. plane carries passengers out of Afghanistan during the 2021 fall of Kabul at the end of ...
In 2009, 39.1 million prescriptions for drugs to tackle depression were issued in England, compared with 20.1 million issued in 1999. [ 233 ] In the United States a 2005 independent report stated that 11% of women and 5% of men in the non-institutionalized population (2002) take antidepressants .