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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Liz Cookman

Tens of millions face being pushed into hunger crisis by Trump’s Iran war fallout

Tens of millions of people around the world could be pushed into a hunger crisis thanks to the fallout from Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

A fragile ceasefire that paused the US and Israel’s strikes on Iran and led to the reopening of a critical global shipping pathway, the Strait of Hormuz, may ease pressure on global energy markets, but the disruption has already triggered a chain of events that could deepen hunger in some of the world’s poorest countries in the coming months, aid agencies have said.

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