The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Sudan rejects African peace bid and ‘enemy’ peacekeeping force

Khartoum instead welcomes summit held by Egypt, widely seen as closer to the army than rival Rapid Support Forces.

Al Jazeera · Jul 11, 2023

Painted messages in Angola's abandoned liberation army camps offer a rare historical record

In Angola’s Malanje province, the buildings of Camalundu stand abandoned amid open fields. On one of them, the fragmented words “IAN NGOYI” recall a figure little-known in Angola but familiar to South Africans: anti-apartheid leader Lilian Ngoyi.

The Conversation · Jul 11, 2023

Charity appeals for people of Lanarkshire to back its appeal to help tackle Ethiopian drought

The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund is taking action as many millions of people in the East African country are on the brink of starvation and 90 per cent of the cattle are dead.

Daily Record · Jul 11, 2023

Three arrested in Kenya as backlash grows over period strip-search

Police take action as activists, politicians and the company involved all condemn tactics used by managers investigating who put sanitary towel in wrong bin

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2023

DRC violence has many causes – the UN's narrow focus on ethnicity won't help end conflict

The UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 2023 mid-term report reduces the very complex causes of violence in the eastern part of the country to inter-communal violence. This widely disregards armed groups’ motivations to resort to violence.

The Conversation · Jul 10, 2023

Sudan on brink of all-out civil war, UN chief warns, after airstrike kills at least 22

António Guterres decries conflict’s ‘utter disregard’ for human rights law as clashes reported in multiple states

The Guardian - AU · Jul 9, 2023

The ‘Anna Bhagya’ fiasco and thinking beyond rice

While the Congress party’s ‘Anna Bhagya’ promise betrayed a lack of vision for food security, it is also time to think beyond rice and wheat through the PDS

The Hindu · Jul 9, 2023

UN warns of ‘full-scale civil war’ in Sudan, Egypt to host summit

Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a war that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warns.

Al Jazeera · Jul 9, 2023

The U.N. secretary-general says Sudan is on the brink of a 'full-scale civil war'

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the war between the Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary force is likely to destabilize the entire region.

WEKU · Jul 9, 2023

Kenya at 60: six key moments that shaped post-colonial politics

Kenya celebrates 60 years of independence this year. As a political scientist who has studied Kenya for the past 20 years, I consider a turning point from each decade that helped to shape the east African country’s post-colonial politics. I haven’t selected elections, assassinations or other moments that have enjoyed…

The Conversation · Jul 9, 2023