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The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Liverpool says 'enough is enough' as hundreds plan to march through city streets

Rallies will take place in 50 towns and cities across the country tomorrow

Liverpool Echo

IMF Says Ukraine War Prompts Worst Global Food Crisis Since at Least 2008

The Ukraine war's disruptions to grain and fertilizer flows have prompted the worst food security crisis since at least the one following the 2007-2008 global financial meltdown, with some 345 million people now facing life-threatening shortages, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday. A new IMF research paper estimates that…

Asharq Al-Awsat

IMF says Ukraine war prompts worst global food crisis since at least 2008

Reuters

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Al Shabaab fighters kill crew drilling well in southern Somalia

Islamist militants from al Shabaab on Friday killed 12 people drilling a well in drought-ravaged southern Somalia, a local resident and official said.

Reuters

At least 12 Haiti prisoners dead for lack of food, medicine, official says

At least 12 prisoners in Haiti died for lack of food or medicine in the month ending in mid-September, a Haitian official said on Thursday, adding the figure had likely risen since then due to a gang blockade that has created crippling fuel shortages.

Reuters

Northern Kenya faces hunger crisis as drought wipes out livestock

(This Sept. 29 story has been corrected to show rains have failed in the last four rainy seasons, not the last four years in second paragraph)

Reuters

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

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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

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

'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

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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

Reuters

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.

Tribune News Service

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.

The Independent UK

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

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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.

Evening Standard

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

Deliveroo workers have also been volunteering at food banks

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 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

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