Hunger is projected to worsen in 16 “hotspots” across the globe, including Sudan, where conflict has left millions at risk of starving. That’s according to a report released Thursday by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme. It said acute food insecurity threatens 22 countries. Th...
United Nations, United States – AFP After nearly a year of war, Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, the United Nations warned Wednesday, slamming the international community for lack of action. Fighting between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, has since ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hamas has condemned the decision of the World Food Programme (WFP) to stop desperately-needed deliveries to the north of the Gaza. The WFP had only just resumed deliveries Sunday but said its convoy was met with gunfire, violence and looting, while a truck driver was beaten. “We are shocked about this ...
ROME (AA) – The World Food Program must have “security guarantees” to bring food supplies into Gaza to prevent the famine that threatens more than 2 million people in the enclave, its executive director has said. “The WFP has food supplies at the border and will be able to scale up to feed 2.2 million […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hundreds of people had to leave Gaza’s main hospital on Saturday after its director said Israel’s army had ordered evacuation of the facility where more than 2,000 patients, medics and displaced people were trapped by Israeli attacks. Columns of sick and injured — some of them amputees R...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The UN’s World Food Programme says the food situation in the besieged and blockaded Gaza Strip is worsening, with only four or five days of stocks left in the shops. WFP said stocks were getting low in warehouses inside the Palestinian enclave, but at the shop level, the situation was even […]
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – – AFP Thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees rallied at camps in Bangladesh on Friday to demand their safe return to Myanmar on the sixth anniversary of the violence that drove them from their homes. Bangladesh is home to around a million members of the stateless minority, most of whom fled the [&hell...
