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G7 must act to help tackle global hunger crisis-German UN food agency

The Group of Seven wealthy countries must ramp up humanitarian aid to help tackle a global hunger crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, a senior official of the United Nations' food agency in Germany was quoted as saying on Saturday.

Reuters

Fears grow for Afghanistan earthquake survivors left without shelter

First shipments of international aid arrive in country as officials say death toll has risen to 1,150

The Guardian - UK

One third of Sudanese facing acute food insecurity - WFP

More than a third of Sudan's population is currently facing acute food insecurity, the World Food Programme said on Thursday, with inadequate funds to cope.

Reuters

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South Sudan: WFP to suspend some food assistance due to funding gaps

In tonight's edition: A desperate lack of funding has forced the World Food Programme to suspend some food aid in South Sudan just as the country needs it most. We speak to the WFP's acting country director, Adeyinka Badejo. Also, survivors of one of the most brutal extremist attacks in…

France 24

Millions at risk in South Sudan as Ukraine war forces slashing of aid

Drastic cuts to World Food Programme assistance will leave people ‘looking death in the face’ unless global donors offer support

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine marks 100 days of war as African Union appeals to Moscow for food relief

Some 1.7 billion people worldwide face increased poverty due to a grain blockade caused by the war in Ukraine, amid mass displacement of the country's population.

ABC News

‘We don’t have food’: Africa’s growing humanitarian crisis

Leaders urge mobilisation to resolve a crisis that has left more than 280 million suffering from malnourishment.

Al Jazeera

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‘I saw an oncologist cry’: Tigray cancer patients sent home to die for lack of drugs

Doctors call for international help as Ethiopia civil war leaves terminally ill being treated with paracetamol in Mekelle hospital

The Guardian - UK

‘It's time to step up’: UN pleas with billionaires amid food insecurity rise

THE head of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) told billionaires it is “time to step up” as the global threat of food insecurity rises with…

The National (Scotland)

U.N. official still hopes Musk will 'step up' to fight world hunger

David Beasley, the U.N. World Food Programme official who clashed with Elon Musk on Twitter last year, said on Monday he hadn't given up on the Tesla billionaire contributing to the fight against world hunger, though the two are not in direct contact.

Reuters

Apocalypse now? The alarming effects of the global food crisis

The Bank of England governor warned last week of ‘apocalyptic’ food price rises. Yet war in Ukraine, climate change and inflation are already taking their toll all over the world

The Guardian - UK

India supplies another 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to crisis-hit Sri Lanka

Meanwhile, Japan has also announced its decision to provide $1.5 million through the World Food Programme for essential food rations

The Hindu

‘Breaking point’: Soaring inflation drives cuts to hunger-relief programs

A dearth of funding coupled with a surge in inflation is forcing hunger-relief programs across the globe to cut back on services just as the world’s poorest need it most, creating a situation that will erode human welfare and possibly plant the seeds of political instability.

Tribune News Service

UN agency in talks with India on wheat procurement amid Ukraine war

World Food Programme report talks of a three-dimensional crisis — food, energy and finance

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The Guardian - UK

‘My children cry with hunger’: refugees denied UN aid rations at Malawi camp

Hundreds at Dzaleka camp told they are no longer eligible for food supplies from the World Food Programme

Reuters

Ukraine grain storage shortage adds to farmers' woes

Ukraine has insufficient storage capacity even for its reduced 2022 grain harvest, the United Nations' World Food Programme said on Tuesday, with the country struggling to export existing stocks during the invasion by Russia.

France 24

Floods in South Africa: Almost 400 confirmed dead, 55 missing

The death toll from South Africa's unprecedented floods has risen to nearly 400. Police, army and volunteers have widened the search for the dozens of people still missing after the storm that devastated Durban over the weekend. In Senegal, citizens express their anger at the failures of the healthcare system…

Al Jazeera

More than 7.7 million facing food crisis in South Sudan

UN says more than two-thirds of population are in need of humanitarian assistance.

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The Independent UK

A green island turns red: Madagascans struggle through long drought

Madagascar has always known extreme weather events, but scientists say these are likely to increase in frequency and severity as the climate crisis pushes temperatures higher

The Guardian - UK

First food aid for 100 days enters Tigray under ‘humanitarian truce’

Besieged region has an estimated 2 million people suffering from an extreme lack of food

Reason

In Afghanistan, Private Aid Fills Void Left by Bureaucratic Failure

Small, private groups are working to feed the hungry and evacuate the endangered.

The Hindu

India calls for 'purposeful engagement' by Russia, Ukraine in peace talks

India’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. calls for unimpeded humanitarian access to areas of armed conflict in Ukraine.

Reuters

With Ukraine farmers on frontlines, U.N. food chief warns of 'devastation'

The U.N. food chief warned on Tuesday that the war in Ukraine was threatening to devastate the World Food Programme's efforts to feed some 125 million people globally because Ukraine had gone "from the breadbasket of the world to breadlines."

Reuters

World Food Programme says food supply chains 'falling apart' in Ukraine

A World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Friday that food supply chains in Ukraine were collapsing, with key infrastructure such as bridges and trains destroyed by bombs and many grocery stores and warehouses empty.

Reuters

A green island turns red: Madagascans struggle through long drought

With precious few trees left to slow the wind in this once fertile corner of southern Madagascar, red sand is blowing everywhere: onto fields, villages and roads, and into the eyes of children waiting for food aid parcels.

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