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World Court orders Israel to take action to address Gaza famine

Judges at the International Court of Justice, on Thursday, unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza, Reuters reports. The ICJ said the Palestinians in Gaza face worsening conditions of life, and famine and starvation are spreading. The new measures were requested by South Africa as part of its ongoing case that accuses Israel of state-led genocide in Gaza. […]

29 March 2024

International

UN says six million Afghans are at risk of famine as crises grow

INTERNATIONAL The UN humanitarian chief has urged donors to restore funding for development in Afghanistan that was frozen when the Taliban took over a year ago, warning that six million people were at risk of famine. Martin Griffiths told the United Nations Security Council that Afghanistan faces multiple crises – humanitarian, economic, climate, hunger and financial – and that donors should immediately provide $770m to help Afghans survive the coming […]

30 August 2022

International News

US announces $225m in emergency food aid to Yemen

The United States on Wednesday announced it would provide $225m in emergency aid to Yemen to support food programmes, and called on the Houthis to do more to allow aid operations to operate "independently and neutrally". US Secretary of Mike Pompeo told a news conference that the funding Washington is committing would go to the UN World Food Programme's (WFP) emergency food operation in southern Yemen, as well as its […]

7 May 2020

International News

A cry for help: Millions facing famine in Yemen

The UN has warned that 17 million Yemenis will be in famine unless the world sends urgent humanitarian help. Antonio Guterres, the UN chief, issued a call to action on Tuesday at the aid conference held in Geneva where donor countries pledged almost $1.1bn. But UN says the amount is half of what is needed to combat what it is calling "the world's largest hunger crisis". More than two million […]

26 April 2017

International News

South Sudan ambush leaves six aid workers dead, UN says

Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in South Sudan, the UN says, in the deadliest single incident for humanitarians since the country's civil war began. The "heinous murder" occurred on Saturday, said Eugene Owusu, the UN's humanitarian chief in South Sudan. The UN did not say who the victims were or what aid agency they worked for. They were traveling between Juba, the capital, and the town of Pibor. At […]

27 March 2017

International News

Yemen and Somalia ‘months away’ from famine

The world has as little as three months to save millions of people from famine in Yemen and Somalia, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday. The medical charity needs $300m to bring emergency assistance to a total of five million people in Yemen, Somalia and northeast Nigeria, as well as areas of South Sudan where famine has already been declared. The funds will ensure that five […]

23 March 2017

International News

Thousands flee famine, fighting in S.Sudan

South Sudanese continue to flee their country because of the ongoing fighting and famine. Almost 1000 South Sudanese, many of them women and children, are reaching the Sudanese border daily. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has set up reception centres at the border to provide humanitarian aid to the displaced. Misery and sadness as the South Sudanese find themselves wanting and driven out of their country by […]

21 March 2017

News

Famine fears as severe drought grips East Africa

A terrible sense of déjà vu hangs over the Horn of Africa, where fears are growing that a severe drought could soon become a famine. Two years of below-average rainfall have pushed Somalia and Ethiopia to the brink of starvation and nomadic families, who move with the seasons in search of fertile land and fresh water, have faced the heart-wrenching choice between feeding themselves and feeding their animals. The goats […]

3 February 2017

International News

Wheat imports halted in Yemen, despite famine

Yemen's biggest traders have stopped new wheat imports amid a crisis at the central bank, documents seen by Reuters show, another blow to the war-torn country where millions are suffering acute malnutrition. Almost two years of war between a Saudi-led Arab coalition and the Iran-allied Houthi movement have left more than half of Yemen's 28 million people "food insecure", with seven million of them enduring hunger, according to the United […]

17 December 2016

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