The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Mehrauli murder: Shraddha Walkar's father demands fast-track trial, threatens to go on hunger strike

NEW DELHI: Vikas Walkar, the father of Shraddha Walkar who was allegedly killed by her live-in partner Aaftab Amin Poonawalla last year, on Saturday demanded that the case be fast-tracked so that he can perform her last rites.

The Times of India · Apr 29, 2023

Fresh air strikes and shelling rock Khartoum as Sudan enters its third week of fighting

Australian officials continue to assist dozens of citizens caught up in the violence as more civilians flee Sudan.

ABC News · Apr 29, 2023

Brits could be left behind in war torn Sudan after deadline for last flight expires

The UK Government had issued a deadline of 12pm local time today for British evacuees to be at the Wadi Saeedna site near the capital otherwise they risk being left behind - but many chose not to attempt the perilous journey through the active warznone

Daily Mirror · Apr 29, 2023

NHS medics and UK nationals faced risky route to Sudan evacuation point

Hundreds of people were told to make own way through ongoing fighting to airbase north of Khartoum

The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2023

Sudan risks long conflict as entrenched rivals struggle for control

Sudan's warring factions are locked in a conflict that two weeks of fighting shows neither can easily win, raising the spectre of a drawn-out war between an agile paramilitary force and the better-equipped army that could destabilise a fragile region.

Reuters · Apr 29, 2023

UN envoy sees Sudan combatants more open to talks

Warring sides in Sudan are more open to negotiations and have accepted the conflict that erupted two weeks ago cannot continue, a U.N. official told Reuters on Saturday, a possible flicker of hope even as fighting continued.

Reuters · Apr 29, 2023

Heavy battles in Sudan despite latest truce, over 70 dead in recent violence

Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, residents said, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county’s two top generals whose power struggle has left hundreds dead.

Radio France Internationale · Apr 29, 2023

A race to the border after childbirth as fighting forces Sudanese to flee

As armed militias attacked and pillaged her village near the town of El Geneina in the western Darfur region of Sudan, pregnant 23-year-old Zamzam Adam was stranded, in labour, and alone, as neighbours fled across the border into Chad.

Reuters · Apr 29, 2023

Global Food Security Remains Under Threat, Despite Drop in Commodity Prices

Global commodity prices are expected to decline this year at the fastest clip since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, clouding the growth prospects of almost two-thirds of developing economies that depend on commodity exports, according to the World Bank's latest Commodity Markets Outlook report. However, according to the bank's…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 29, 2023

Sudan ceasefire falls apart as rival factions escalate war in Khartoum

Air strikes, anti-aircraft weaponry and artillery could be heard in Khartoum as fighting in Sudan enters a third week.

The New Daily · Apr 29, 2023