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India is a rich country with poor population facing issues like starvation, unemployment: Gadkari

Gadkari emphasised the need to work in the fields of education, health and services to bridge the rich-poor gap

The Hindu

Widerimage: As grocery bills soar, hungry Brazilians may seal Bolsonaro’s fate

The specter of hunger hangs over Brazil's presidential race this year like few before it.

Reuters

Climate Migration: Blind and homeless amid Somalia's drought

Issack is 80, Hassan 75

The Independent UK

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Biden takes aim at food insecurity with first hunger conference in 50 years – as it happened

Biden releases national hunger and nutrition strategy, which includes a slate of goals to help end food insecurity

The Guardian - US

More than $8bn pledged to Joe Biden’s goal of ending hunger

White House officials announced the donations came from private corporations and non-profits alike

The Guardian - US

ADB plans $14 billion program to ease food crisis in region

The Asian Development Bank plans to provide at least $14 billion over 2022-2025 in a comprehensive program of support to ease a food crisis in Asia and the Pacific, its president said on Tuesday.

Reuters

White House conference puts spotlight on hunger relief

As the country’s food charities struggle to keep up with rising inflation and demand, the White House will host a conference on Wednesday

The Independent UK

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'Don't leave me': Survivor recounts Lebanon boat sinking

Thirty-one-year-old Jihad Michlawi struggled to makes end meet as a chef in crisis-hit Beirut

The Independent UK

Biden wants to put calorie information on the front of food packaging

The White House will be hosting a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health on Wednesday, the first of its kind in 50 years

The Independent UK

Nigeria's northwest faces worsening malnutrition - MSF

Nigeria faces worsening malnutrition in the northwest due to insecurity, high food prices and the impact of climate change, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Tuesday, calling for the region to be included in United Nations funding plans next year.

Reuters

Inflation and expiring benefits have more Americans going hungry

Hunger is spreading among Americans with steady but low-paying jobs, reversing President Joe Biden's early success in cutting food scarcity by nearly a third and threatening to worsen as the country teeters on the brink of recession.

Tribune News Service

Sudan officials warn of disease from unidentified bodies

Sudanese medical officials have warned that more than 1,500 unidentified bodies piled up in Sudan’s mortuaries could lead to an outbreak of diseases

The Independent UK

In Syria, mounting cholera cases pose threat across frontlines

A cholera outbreak that has claimed 29 lives in Syria is posing a danger across the frontlines of the country's 11-year-long war, stirring fears in crowded camps for the displaced who lack running water or sewage systems.

Reuters

Londoners donate half a million meals to food banks via Deliveroo partnership

Deliveroo workers have also been volunteering at food banks

Evening Standard

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Sudanese Head North to Egypt Seeking Brighter Future

At downtown Khartoum's al-Souq al-Arabi, travel agencies helping young Sudanese seek a brighter economic future in Egypt are replacing once-packed hardware stores in a corner of the capital's main commercial hub. The exodus reflects growing despondence over prospects at home, where the economy has been in free fall and the…

The Independent UK

ADB to devote $14B to help ease food crisis in Asia-Pacific

The Asian Development Bank says it is devoting at least $14 billion through 2025 to help ease a worsening food crisis in the Asia-Pacific

Asharq Al-Awsat

WFP Provides Food Assistance for 250 Thousand Yemenis

The United Nation World Food Program (WFP) announced plans to maximize support for Yemen, suspended earlier this year due to funding shortfalls, supported by a 30 million euros contribution from Germany. The WFP said in its Situation Report for August that it will resume work to complete 300 assets in…

The Times of India

China's failure to invest in Afghanistan is frustrating the Taliban

BEIJING: The US withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of war opened up an opportunity for China to expand its influence and lock down access to the country's vast mineral deposits.

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The Independent UK

UN meeting produces sense that a 'new epoch' is arriving

The war in Ukraine and its global fallout transfixed the meeting of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this year

The Guardian - UK

Act now to save Somalia from deadly famine

Letters: Experts forecast that starvation will spread in Somalia between October and December, writes Helene Sinnreich

The Independent UK

OECD: War in Ukraine to drag on global economy into 2023

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says Russia’s war in Ukraine and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are dragging down global economic growth more than expected and driving up inflation that will stay high into next year

Reuters

Sudanese head north to Egypt seeking brighter future

Al Jazeera

Protests in Tunisia’s capital amid inflation, food shortages

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Tunis in unrest compounded by an ongoing political crisis.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syria Cholera Death Toll Rises to 29

A cholera outbreak in several regions of Syria has killed 29 people, the Syrian health ministry said on Monday in what the UN has called the worst outbreak in the war-torn country for years. Rapid assessment testing confirmed 338 cases since the outbreak was first recorded last month, with the…

Reuters

U.N. food agency: debris from drone strike hit truck in northern Ethiopia

Debris from a drone strike in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region hit a World Food Programme truck carrying humanitarian aid and injured the driver, a WFP spokesperson said on Monday.

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