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Climate disasters put plight of displaced in COP27 focus

Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia - one of more than a million people displaced since January after five successive failed rainy seasons.

Reuters

Ukraine minister urges ASEAN bloc to stop Russia’s ‘hunger games’

Ukraine Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba tells Southeast Asian leaders ‘the worst thing that a country can do is nothing’.

Al Jazeera

Droughts, floods and storms: The people hit hardest by the climate crisis

As world leaders converge on Sharm el-Sheikh for UN climate conference Cop27, World Food Programme staff highlight some of the countries hit hardest

The Independent UK

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Hungry children miss out on free meals – and struggling schools cannot help

Families from ‘working poor’ omitted from scheme, and costs crisis leaves schools powerless to subsidise them

The Guardian - UK

Tigray still without aid eight days after deal to end Ethiopia’s blockade

Humanitarian groups hope to deliver huge influx of food and medicine to millions facing famine and disease

The Guardian - UK

In Yemen, farmers choose narcotic over other crops, exacerbating climate woes

Farmers are draining groundwater around Yemen's capital and removing soil to cultivate the narcotic green leaf qat that dominates life in the country, threatening to exhaust precious resources in the climate-vulnerable nation.

Reuters

Surge in Starving Children in War-torn Syria

The number of malnourished children starving in northeastern Syria, an area ravaged by more than a decade of conflict, has risen by 150 percent, aid group Save the Children said Thursday. "Every day we have to deal with more malnourished children than the day before," the aid agency said, in…

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Cost of living crisis driving food banks to 'breaking point' with 'need exceeding donations' for first time, says charity

One in five individuals referred now coming from working households

Manchester Evening News

Food banks ‘at breaking point’ with 320,000 first-time users

The Trussell Trust issued a stark warning on Thursday after new research showed record-breaking levels of need

Wales Online

Cost of living sees food banks ‘at breaking point’ with 320,000 first-time users

New research from the Trussell Trust shows record-breaking levels of need, with one in five individuals referred coming from working households.

The Independent UK

Global population to hit 8 billion

The world's population will reach 8 billion in the middle of November -- a testament to scientific breakthroughs and improvements in nutrition, public health and sanitation. But as our human family grows larger, it is also growing more divided.

Bangkok Post

3 Food Processing Dividend Stocks That Could Benefit From Food Shortages Driven By Russia-Ukraine War

With global supply chain shortages impacting nearly every sector of the economy in the past two years, will global food shortages worsen? As the U.S.

Benzinga

UN warns of worsening food crisis in Sri Lanka amid economic woes

UN agencies say they raised $79m in aid, they need an additional $70m to cater to growing number of poor people.

Al Jazeera

African nations can’t ‘adapt’ to the climate crisis. Here’s what rich countries must do

There are 37 million people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa. Time for wealthier countries to adopt ‘loss and damage finance’, says climate activist Vanessa Nakate

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Foodbanks in regional South Australia experience record-breaking days as cost of living soars

More people are turning to food support services across regional South Australia as cost-of-living pressures eat into household budgets.

The Independent UK

Zayn Malik calls on Rishi Sunak to expand free school meals

Feed the Future: The former One Direction member relied on free school meals as a child

The Independent UK

‘Shocking reality’: Food banks could close this winter because of energy bills

UK likely to see some charities being ‘forced to stop feeding the hungry’, warns Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK

Africa is being devastated by a climate crisis it didn’t cause. Cop27 must help

Drought, flooding and rising sea levels are creating havoc across our continent – we need support from richer nations to adapt, says Amina J Mohammed, deputy secretary-general of the United Nations

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Int’l Report: 4,000 Yemenis are Killed Each Year in Land, Water Disputes

An international center has warned that climate change put the population of Yemen at significant risk moving forward, both in their ability to attain needed resources to survive and in the potential for conflict to continue well into the future over increasingly constrained resources. In its report on the climate…

Al Jazeera

Malnutrition woes overwhelm children in northeast Nigeria

Over 1.3 million children under 5 are likely suffering acute malnourishment in northeast Nigeria, according to the UN.

The Guardian - UK

Climate ‘loss and damage’: why it’s such a big deal at Cop27

Global heating crisis is felt most by countries that are least to blame, so reparations are central to demands for climate justice

The Independent UK

G7 ministers rally support for Ukraine, suspicion of China

Top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized democracies are rallying support for Ukraine and coming together to voice suspicion of China’s increasing assertiveness

Daily Mirror

Brit stuck in Egyptian prison goes on full hunger strike and will die in weeks

Egypt has still not granted the UK consular access to Alaa Abdel Fattah despite British and Egyptian officials working closely together on planning for the climate summit

Al Jazeera

Ethiopia peace deal hailed as a ‘new dawn’

World and regional leaders welcome the peace agreement, stressing this is the first step to end the bloody war.

Reuters

For survivors of Ethiopia's Tigray war, truce brings cautious hope

A ceasefire deal in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has raised cautious hope among millions of people impacted by the bloody two-year conflict that their anguish could be coming to an end.

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