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“An inverse tsunami”: How inflation and drought are making it harder to feed West Texans in need

Food banks across Texas are now struggling to keep up with growing demand even more than they were during the pandemic.

The Texas Tribune

Sudan Schools Crisis Threatens Grim Future for Children

It's the start of a new school term in Sudan, yet nine-year-old Zahra Hussein stays home helping with household chores, forced to drop out as her family's money grows ever tighter. Zahra quit primary school a year ago after she had just started third grade in a rundown school building…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rangers and Liverpool fans unite to deliver food bank goods to needy families

Fans Supporting Foodbanks and trade union Unite organised the donations to help support city residents suffering food poverty.

Daily Record

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UN: 75% of 6 million Venezuelan migrants go unfed, unhoused

The United Nations says almost three-quarters of the 6 million Venezuelan migrants currently in Latin America lack adequate food, shelter, employment or medical care

The Independent UK

Liverpool fans to bring food bank donations with them to Ibrox for Glasgow pantries

Football Fans Supporting Foodbanks has teamed with Unite the union ahead of tonight's Champions League match at Ibrox to bring together food for those in need across Glasgow.

Glasgow Live

Chad climate disaster leaves record 2.1 million people hungry

Severe drought followed by the worst floods in 30 years have led to rocketing food prices and left a record 2.1 million people in Chad acutely hungry, according to United Nations agencies.

Reuters

Charities call on government to urgently increase number of free school meals

Feed the Future: Organisations partnering with The Independent’s Feed the Future campaign call for meals to be extended to all children in poverty

The Independent UK

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Calls grow to give free school meals to all children in poverty

Special investigation: David Cohen talks to increasingly desperate parents queueing with empty shopping bags outside a school near Battersea Power Station

Evening Standard

‘Overlapping shocks’ are undoing efforts to end hunger in Africa, UN warns

Urgent aid response needed as climate crisis, Covid, local conflicts and soaring fuel prices push millions more into hunger

The Guardian - UK

Unaffordable food and shortages risk instability in the birthplace of the Arab Spring

Tunisians face soaring food prices and shortages of basic staples, threatening to turn discontent in the North African country — the cradle of the Arab Spring protests — into larger turmoil.

WEKU

Empty shelves or unaffordable food: Tunisia's crisis deepens

Tunisians have been hit with soaring food prices and shortages of basic staples in recent weeks

The Independent UK

Children face a hunger crisis – the government needs to act by providing more free school meals

Feed the Future: The Independent partners with the Food Foundation to call on the government to give meals to all schoolchildren living in poverty but who are not currently eligible

The Independent UK

Free school meals plea for every child living in poverty

Special investigation: Move would benefit Britain by £2.5billion over 20 years

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: Scale of hunger crisis facing London families revealed

Stolen food and empty lunchboxes as children go hungry - ES investigation

Evening Standard

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Miami Herald

In Haiti, factories close, school feedings are on hold and hunger is about to get worse

The armed men arrived at the two-story factory in Haiti’s rural Artibonite Valley, wielding AK-47s, followed by a hungry mob of hundreds.

Reuters

UN aid chief 'reasonably confident' on extension of Ukraine deal

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths voiced confidence on Monday that a U.N.-brokered deal allowing Ukrainian Black Sea grains exports could be extended and even expanded despite apparent revenge strikes by Russia on Kyiv.

The Independent UK

‘I feel disgusted society would allow this’: Desperate schoolchildren and parents shoplifting to feed themselves and their families

Special Investigation: Headteachers and youth workers highlight an increasing hunger crisis among families living in poverty but who are not eligible for free school meals

Evening Standard

Stealing to eat: Hunger crisis for children not eligible for free school meals but living in poverty

As the cost of living crisis worsens, some families are being pushed to the limit. David Cohen hears about pupils stealing from school canteens and a mother of three caught with a loaf under her coat

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The Guardian - UK

UK’s lost leadership role hurts Somalia’s fight against famine, says drought envoy

Britain is no longer the key humanitarian player and ‘great ally’ it once was, says envoy trying to get support for Somalia’s drought

Miami Herald

UN secretary-general proposes rapid-response troops to help Haiti regain control from gangs

The head of the United Nations threw his weight Sunday behind Haiti’s request for the immediate deployment of military troops to help the country take back control of its ports from powerful gangs and provide aid as Haitians confront a deadly cholera outbreak.

The Independent UK

Food insecurity haunts Brazil’s election race as hungry voters head to the polls

A massive number of Brazilians are experiencing worsening hunger, as citizens head to the polls to decide whether to re-elect President Jair Bolsonaro for another term

ABC News

Prolonged drought brings famine, death and fear to Somalia

Somalis say the current drought is worse than any they can remember, with thousands of people dying and a rare famine declaration possible as soon as this month.

The Guardian - UK

Postponement of Tigray peace talks latest blow in Ethiopia’s hidden war

Airstrikes, malnutrition and disease have claimed thousands of lives in one of the most deadly but least reported conflicts in the world

Miami Herald

US considering request for international intervention in Haiti as fuel crisis spirals

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering calls for the creation of a humanitarian corridor in Haiti to break the blockade of fuel by armed gangs and protect the delivery of aid as the country faces one of its worst health, energy and security crises in a generation.

ABC News

Irish village at Baker's Flat was a place of sweat and survival for those fleeing the Great Famine

In a field north of Adelaide, buried beneath the soil, is a portal not only into Australia's colonial history but into Ireland's past.

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