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FAO: Rising Prices, Food Insecurity Add to Ranks of Hungry

Growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty, according to a report released Tuesday by the Food and Agricultural Organization and other United Nations agencies. Nearly a half-billion people, more than eight in 10 of them in South…

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FAO: Rising prices, food insecurity add to ranks of hungry

A report by the United Nations shows growing numbers of people in Asia lack enough to eat as food insecurity rises with higher prices and worsening poverty

The Independent UK

IMF approves $105 million to fight food shortages in Haiti

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) executive board approved $105 million to help Haiti address severe food insecurity, the institution said on Monday, as the Caribbean country faces widespread shortages amid a humanitarian crisis.

Reuters

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Is debt cancellation the way forward for Sri Lanka?

As 182 economists from around the world issued a call to cancel Sri Lanka’s debt, not all experts agree.

Al Jazeera

UN Aid Chief Raises Women’s Rights Concerns with Taliban in Afghan Capital

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said. The Taliban-run administration last month ordered NGOs not to allow most female employees to work, prompting many aid agencies…

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Venezuela public sector workers march for better salaries

Hundreds of public sector workers including teachers, nurses and retired police officers took to the streets in Venezuela on Monday to demand better salaries and pensions at a time when the government of President Nicolas Maduro faces growing inflation.

Reuters

Eritrean troops seen leaving Ethiopian town of Shire

Large numbers of Eritrean troops have left the town of Shire in Ethiopia's Tigray region where they fought in support of government forces during a two-year civil war, a resident and two humanitarian workers told Reuters on Saturday.

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Hunger-striking activists in hospital

Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) has renewed its call for an end to arbitrary detention and judicial harassment of political activists, as a prison hunger strike by two of those activists enters its fourth day.

Bangkok Post

Houthi Aid Constraints Affect 10 Mn Yemenis

An estimated 10.1 million (49 percent) of the people in need across Yemen are living in areas affected by Houthi aid access constraints, according to the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs. In a report reviewing the relief work during the past year, the UN indicated that the operating environment in…

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After 10 days, dozens of Texas prisoners remain on hunger strike protesting solitary confinement practices

Although the number of men refusing food has steadily declined, 38 are still starving themselves to protest Texas policies that often keep prisoners in isolation for years or even decades.

The Texas Tribune

Brit detectives' Rwanda trip in probe into five genocide suspects living in UK

Scotland Yard detectives are visiting the country to continue investigations into the suspected atrocities over which five Brits were questioned back in 2020

Daily Mirror

Africa's economic growth: What's the outlook for 2023?

The war in Ukraine, climate change and food insecurity are three issues blighting the world. Africa, though, is perhaps the continent set to be hardest hit by all of them. France’s development agency AFD is publishing a report on the African economy, which aims to provide an overview of the…

France 24

Local militia in DR Congo launch second deadly attack in a week

The UN says another seven civilians have been killed by militia in a northeastern area of Democratic Republic of Congo by the same local militia blamed for killing 49 people discovered in mass graves earlier this week.

Radio France Internationale

Taliban ‘Men-Only’ Aid Edict Divides Charity Community

The World Food Program seems poised to carry on, driving NGOs to call it quits on aid.

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Yemenis Mock Houthis over Claims of Fighting Corruption

Yemenis on social media have denounced Houthi Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein al-Ezzi for purchasing a massive villa in Sanaa for $1.5 million. Video footage posted online showed one of the citizens mocking the state of poverty experienced by Yemenis in Houthi-run areas at a time when the militia leaders are…

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Dublin Says ‘Doing All It Can’ to Free French-Irish Citizen Held in Iran

Ireland's foreign minister said Thursday the government was doing all it can to secure the release of a French-Irish citizen held in Iran after his family urged Dublin to intensify talks due to concerns for his health following a hunger strike. Micheal Martin told a news conference in Dublin that…

Wales Online

Manston asylum seeker's 'worst days of life' were at UK processing centre

'I wished I would have had some rights when arriving here in the UK, but I didn’t have these basic human rights'

Reuters

Child nutrition drops in Sri Lanka amid economic crisis

The number of children grappling with various forms of undernutrition in Sri Lanka increased for the first time in at least six years in 2022, a government report and data from the health ministry indicate.

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Syria Witnesses Dangerous Rise in Cholera Deaths, Warnings of Catastrophe in North

Local organizations and health authorities on Tuesday sounded the alarm about the unprecedented increase in the number of deaths from cholera reported in northwestern Syria in recent days. Concerns are also mounting over the spread of the disease in camps for the displaced. More than half a million displaced living…

The Guardian - UK

For peace in Haiti, first win the war on hunger

Letters: The millions of Haitians facing food insecurity need our help, says Jean-Martin Bauer of the UN’s World Food Programme, while Selma James urges robust reporting on the crisis

The Conversation

7 million internally displaced people live in Central Africa – they need more support

Central Africa is host to the largest community of internally displaced persons in Africa. The countries in this region include Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.

Reuters

Aid groups resume some Afghan operations with female healthworkers

Several aid organisations have restored some operations in Afghanistan after they received assurances from Taliban-run authorities that women could work in areas such as health, in spite of restrictions last month barring female NGO workers.

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American Siamak Namazi is on a hunger strike in Iranian prison. Why now and for what?

Namazi is on a hunger strike to mark the seventh anniversary of a prisoner swap that did not include him, and calling on Biden to free detainees in Iran. His lawyer spoke with NPR about those efforts.

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China's Population Shrinks for 1st Time in Over 60 Years

China's population shrank last year for the first time in more than six decades, official data showed Tuesday, as the world's most populous country faces a looming demographic crisis. The nation of 1.4 billion has seen birth rates plunge to record lows as its workforce ages, in a rapid decline…

Reuters

India tells IMF it backs Sri Lanka's debt restructuring plan - source

India has informed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) it will support Sri Lanka's debt restructuring plan, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the island nation races to secure a $2.9 billion bailout from the global lender.

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