Camping in schools, hungry Haiti families ask: when will normality return?
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Majorie Edoi sells food from a stand in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince – or she used to, until a conflict with armed gangs cut off the city from suppliers, paralysed trade routes and pushed the Caribbean country to its highest levels of hunger on record. The 30-year-old mother of three now sells food […]
Sudan faces famine risk in 14 areas, global hunger monitor says
Cairo, Egypt Reuters There is a realistic chance of famine in 14 areas across Sudan if the war that began in April last year escalates, a global monitor said on Thursday, in a sharply worsening hunger crisis that the World Food Programme called the world’s largest. The areas listed by the Integrated Food Security Phase […]
Famine watchdog projects 756,000 Sudanese face starvation in coming months
Reuters An estimated 756,000 people in Sudan could face catastrophic food shortages by September, according to a preliminary projection used by United Nations agencies and aid groups to determine whether to officially declare a famine. The preliminary results, as of 1st June and seen by Reuters, reflect a rapidly deteriorating situation in the war-torn country. […]
Parts of Sudan are in famine, extent unclear, top US diplomat says
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Parts of Sudan are in famine, a top US diplomat said on Tuesday, adding that the extent of extreme hunger remained unclear nearly 14 months into a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “I think we know we are in famine,” Tom Perriello, the US special envoy […]
Sudan needs “immediate action” on hunger to avert widespread death, UN-backed report says
United Nations Reuters Immediate action is needed to “prevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods and avert a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan,” a United Nations-backed global authority on food security warned on Friday. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) had been due to issue an update to its December analysis that found […]
Haiti gang wars push hunger to worst levels on record, reports say
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Almost half of Haiti’s people are struggling to feed themselves as gang violence spreads across the country, with several areas close to famine, international organisations said on Friday. Inflation and poor harvests have also helped push Haiti to its worst levels of food insecurity on record, they said. People take cover from […]
“Grave danger”: Millions of Sudanese go hungry as war disrupts food supply
NAFISA ELTAHIR, of Reuters, reports on the daily struggle Sudanese are facing to find food in a nation riven by war…
Famine looms in Gaza – how will the world know it has arrived?
United Nations Reuters The United Nations has warned that widespread famine in the Gaza Strip is “almost inevitable” without action. A formal conclusion that famine has arrived in the coastal enclave of 2.3 million people could come next week. Palestinians with children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food […]
War pushes Sudan towards “catastrophic” famine-like conditions
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Families in Sudan’s conflict zones could experience famine-like hunger by next summer, the United Nations has warned, while some in the war-ravaged capital are surviving on a single, meagre daily meal. Some 30 million people, almost two thirds of the population, are in need of assistance in Sudan according to the UN, […]
Somalia’s drought killed 43,000 last year, half under five – study
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Somalia’s ongoing record drought killed as many as 43,000 people last year, half of them children under 5, researchers said on Monday in the first attempt to estimate country-wide deaths. After five consecutive failed rainy seasons, half of Somalia’s 17 million people are in urgent need of aid, the United Nations has […]