The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

School children protest outside Northern Ireland Office over education funding cuts

The Cost of Living Crisis is already having a huge impact on schools, pupils and their parents

Belfast Live · Mar 31, 2023

Stampede at food distribution center kills 11 in Pakistan

Pakistani police say 11 women and children have been killed in a deadly stampede at a Ramadan food distribution center in the southern port city of Karachi

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2023

Stampede at Ramadan food distribution centre kills 11 in Pakistan

Women and children die when people panic and push each other to collect food in Karachi, officials say.

Al Jazeera · Mar 31, 2023

'Cuts will have a devastating impact on low income families' says food bank worker

Paul Doherty is supporting 500 homes each week across West Belfast

Belfast Live · Mar 30, 2023

Afghan pilot’s impassioned plea to PM: I was proud to fight with British forces – so don’t deport me to Rwanda

Exclusive: Open letter begs Rishi Sunak to honour promise to help veterans like him, after he was forced to flee certain death at home and risk his life once more to arrive here by small boat

The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2023

Dengue fever spreads across Sudan with health response weakened

Dengue fever has spread into Sudan's capital for the first time on record, as the country tackles its widest ever outbreak of the disease, exacerbated by an under-funded health system, officials say.

Reuters · Mar 30, 2023

'Boris wants to talk’: How Marcus Rashford kept the former prime minister waiting in 2020

Manchester United training took priority over meetings with government figures for Marcus Rashford

FourFourTwo · Mar 30, 2023

Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina's release and apology – a master stroke by Kagame

Rwanda’s ministry of justice recently announced the pardon and release of Paul Rusesabagina from jail. Rusesabagina was involved in events portrayed in the 2004 Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda.

The Conversation · Mar 30, 2023

Thousands of Prisoners in Lebanon at Risk of Starvation

Prisoners in crisis-hit Lebanon are not only deprived of their freedom - due to the constant postponement of trials as a result of judicial strikes – but also face a shortage of medical supplies, lack of hygiene, and an increasing risk of starvation. In fact, the prisons’ food crisis is…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 30, 2023

South Sudan president appoints own defence minister, breaching peace deal

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has appointed a member of his own party as defence minister, according to a decree read on state media, breaching a peace deal in which the role should be selected by the party of opposition leader Riek Machar.

Reuters · Mar 30, 2023