Millions around the world are starving. Here’s what the UK needs to be doing

Sudanese refugee children from al-Fashir stand at sunset in the Tine transit camp in eastern Chad - (Reuters)

As Kirsty McNeill approaches 100 days as international development minister, her words to charities while serving as Scotland office minister are worth recalling: civil society sees “things we in government just can’t see.” In international development, that could not be truer.

I recently returned from Chad, where we took three members of parliament to see Action Against Hunger’s work, and where the consequences of the war in neighbouring Sudan on fuelling hunger are impossible to ignore.