Son forced to beg from hunger, parents arrested in America
Photo courtesy of Social Media A mother and father in the US state of Georgia were arrested on charges of abuse and neglect of their 10-year-old son. According to foreign…
Violence in Sudan likely to spark record levels of hunger
In an alert on the situation, the World Food Programme (WFP) said that it expected between two and 2.5 million more people to face acute hunger in the coming months,…
Israel: UN experts demand accountability over death of Palestinian hunger striker
The 45-year-old Palestinian died in his prison cell on Tuesday morning following a nearly three-month hunger strike. He had been protesting Israel’s widespread policy of arbitrarily detaining Palestinians in “abhorrent…
Khizr Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike, died in an Israeli prison
Palestinian prisoner Khizr Adnan, who was on hunger strike in an Israeli prison, died. Palestinian citizen Khizr Adnan belonged to Islamic Jihad. According to Arab media, Palestinian citizen Khizr Adnan…
Sudan latest: Tens of thousands on the move; spectre of ethnic clashes, hunger draws closer
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that tens of thousands of refugees from South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea living in the country have fled the fighting between the Sudanese Armed…
Chad: aid for displaced desperately needed to avoid hunger
Speaking from Ndjamena, Pierre Honnorat, director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Chad, said that as the country moves into the lean season in-between harvests, food assistance could…
Haiti: $720 million plan to support millions facing gangs, hunger and cholera
The 2023 funding appeal is the largest for the Caribbean country since the devastating 2010 earthquake and more than double the amount requested last year. The UN humanitarian affairs office…
New WFP chief Cindy McCain warns of funding crunch in fight against hunger
WFP estimates that more than 345 million people worldwide face crisis levels of food insecurity this year, an increase of almost 200 million since early 2020. Of these, 43 million…
UNICEF alert to save millions from desperate hunger in Yemen
Eight brutal years of conflict have left around 11 million children in need of humanitarian assistance and many of their families facing serious malnourishment. “The lives of millions of vulnerable…
Haiti: Amid rising hunger levels, ‘world cannot wait for disaster before it acts’, WFP warns
“Haiti can’t wait,” said Jean-Martin Bauer, World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director for the country. “We cannot wait for the scale of the problem to be expressed in deaths before…