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Four once-off social welfare payments to be paid or apply for in June

Several social welfare payments are paid out this month

Irish Mirror

UN food agency says will slash Syria aid by about half

World Food Programme funding crisis means aid will be cut to 2.5 million of 5.5 million people reliant on agency.

Al Jazeera

Food aid suspended in Ethiopia after ‘widespread and coordinated’ thievery

UN and US halt food assistance in the country, where 20 million people rely on aid, in order to investigate ‘diversion’ of supplies

The Guardian - UK

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UN joins US in suspending food aid to Ethiopia over diversion of supplies

The United Nations World Food Program said Friday that it is temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia because its supplies are being diverted, an announcement that came a day after the United States Agency for International Development said it was doing the same.

France 24

Even prisons serve regular meals – yet in our camp, Rohingyas go hungry

Prevented by Bangladeshi authorities from working, refugees in the Cox’s Bazar camp are dependent on food aid, which is being cut again and again. We cannot carry on like this, says the founder of Rohingya Women Development Forum

The Guardian - UK

Pakistan, Afghanistan among global food shortage 'hotspots': Report

Two United Nations bodies Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have foreseen acute food insecurity in Pakistan that is likely to further exacerbate in the coming months, if the economic and political crisis further worsens. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Sudan army brings in reinforcements as it battles RSF in Khartoum

Fighting has intensified in Khartoum as well as Darfur, despite US sanctions imposed in wake of truce collapse.

Al Jazeera

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Aid agencies in Sudan grapple with looting, bureaucracy to deliver relief

Aid workers in Sudan say fierce fighting, rampant looting and reams of red tape are hampering efforts to deliver vital humanitarian supplies to the millions of people who now rely on a relief effort since a conflict erupted in mid-April.

Reuters

‘Day of mourning’: 200,000 Palestinian families lose UN food aid

By August, the WFP will be forced to suspend operations in the West Bank and Gaza if no funding is received.

Al Jazeera

World Bank approves $300 million financing to help poor people in Lebanon

The World Bank has approved a $300 million additional financing to Lebanon's poor, giving cash to families struggling in the country’s historic economic meltdown

The Independent UK

UN Security Council to meet on Sudan as a million are displaced by violence

The United Nations has called an emergency Security Council meeting on the fighting in Sudan, which has displaced an estimated one million people since it broke out a month ago.

Radio France Internationale

Official Cyclone Mocha death toll in Myanmar rises to 145

Official death toll surges as the UN says at least 800,000 people in need of emergency food aid and other assistance.

Al Jazeera

A second exile: Sudanese refugees flee again to destitute Chad

Fleeing the village to escape from attackers, crossing a desert border, building a shelter from straw and rags, waiting for food aid: these are familiar hardships for Halime Adam Moussa, who has fled Sudan for Chad with her family for a second time.

Reuters

Explainer-What happens if Black Sea grain corridor deal is not extended?

A deal allowing Ukraine to export grain via the Black Sea expires on May 18, with Kyiv hoping for an extension and Moscow pushing a list of demands in return for its support.

Reuters

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Charities call for more eyes on plight of Sudanese people following evacuations

HUMANITARIAN organisations have urged the international community and media to place more attention on those still struggling in war-torn Sudan...

The Independent UK

Bangladesh, Myanmar bracing as Cyclone Mocha set to make landfall

Bangladesh and Myanmar are bracing as an extremely severe cyclone is set to hit their coastal areas, as authorities told thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter

Reuters

UN's WFP calls for urgent funding to assist 2.3 million people in need of food in Chad

The United Nations World Food Programme said on Thursday it urgently requires $162.4 million to support the government of Chad in assisting 2.3 million people in urgent need of food, including over 30,000 who recently fled the conflict in Sudan.

Al Jazeera

US ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Sudan ceasefire talks

Official says US-backed talks seek ‘narrow’ goal of securing ceasefire before working towards permanent end to fighting.

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The Independent UK

South Sudanese flee Sudan's conflict yet return to crisis

More than 40,000 people have crossed into South Sudan since neighboring Sudan erupted into conflict nearly one month ago

Reuters

Factbox-How big is the aid crisis caused by the Sudan fighting?

Aid workers say fighting between rival military factions in Sudan is pushing poorly-funded humanitarian programmes in the region to a breaking point.

Reuters

Sudan deepens crisis in Africa as UN sees 5 million more needing aid

When a power struggle between Sudan's rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac's first instinct was to take her five children and run.

Reuters

World Food Programme to suspend aid to Palestinians due to funding shortage

The World Food Programme (WFP) will suspend food aid to over 200,000 Palestinians from next month due to a "severe" shortage of funds, the group's senior official for the Palestinian territories said on Sunday.

The Guardian - UK

Sudan’s neighbours have little to offer refugees, warns UN

Thousands of Sudanese are crossing borders into countries already severely stressed by drought, conflicts and food insecurity, say UN officials

Reuters

WFP says $13 million-14 million worth of food looted in Sudan

The World Food Programme (WFP) has estimated that $13 million to $14 million worth of food products destined to people in need in Sudan have been looted since fighting broke out last month, the WFP said on Thursday.

Radio France Internationale

US, UN halt food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray over diverted shipments

USAID and the World Food Programme announced on Wednesday they were freezing food aid to the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia "until further notice", after finding shipments were diverted to local markets.

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