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UN: Millions left with no aid as West Africa suffers worst hunger crisis in 10 years

The United Nations food agency says millions of hungry people in West Africa are left without aid because it is struggling with limited funding to respond to the region's worst hunger crisis in 10 years

The Independent UK

‘We blame government and aid agencies’: food relief thefts in Ethiopia leave those in need with nothing

The Guardian - UK

Once starved by war, millions of Ethiopians go hungry again as US, UN pause aid after massive theft

Millions of Ethiopians were starved by a two-year war

The Independent UK

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Rohingya refugees face soaring hunger and crime after aid cuts

LONDON: Every day 5-year-old Jannat hunts for bottles and cans in the Rohingya refugee camp where she lives in Bangladesh – when she collects enough, she buys a snack to stave off her hunger pangs.

Bangkok Post

How a canal is bringing water, fish and hope to farmers in Cambodia

A project funded by Japan and facilitated by the World Food Programme is changing lives in a community hit by erratic weather linked to climate extremes

The Independent UK

Social welfare Ireland: Four handy once-off payments you can apply for and receive in June

It's likely to be a very busy month for families as schools finish up for the summer soon

Dublin Live

Four once-off social welfare payments to be paid or apply for in June

Several social welfare payments are paid out this month

Irish Mirror

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UN food agency says will slash Syria aid by about half

World Food Programme funding crisis means aid will be cut to 2.5 million of 5.5 million people reliant on agency.

Al Jazeera

Food aid suspended in Ethiopia after ‘widespread and coordinated’ thievery

UN and US halt food assistance in the country, where 20 million people rely on aid, in order to investigate ‘diversion’ of supplies

The Guardian - UK

UN joins US in suspending food aid to Ethiopia over diversion of supplies

The United Nations World Food Program said Friday that it is temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia because its supplies are being diverted, an announcement that came a day after the United States Agency for International Development said it was doing the same.

France 24

Even prisons serve regular meals – yet in our camp, Rohingyas go hungry

Prevented by Bangladeshi authorities from working, refugees in the Cox’s Bazar camp are dependent on food aid, which is being cut again and again. We cannot carry on like this, says the founder of Rohingya Women Development Forum

The Guardian - UK

Pakistan, Afghanistan among global food shortage 'hotspots': Report

Two United Nations bodies Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have foreseen acute food insecurity in Pakistan that is likely to further exacerbate in the coming months, if the economic and political crisis further worsens. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Sudan army brings in reinforcements as it battles RSF in Khartoum

Fighting has intensified in Khartoum as well as Darfur, despite US sanctions imposed in wake of truce collapse.

Al Jazeera

Aid agencies in Sudan grapple with looting, bureaucracy to deliver relief

Aid workers in Sudan say fierce fighting, rampant looting and reams of red tape are hampering efforts to deliver vital humanitarian supplies to the millions of people who now rely on a relief effort since a conflict erupted in mid-April.

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Al Jazeera

‘Day of mourning’: 200,000 Palestinian families lose UN food aid

By August, the WFP will be forced to suspend operations in the West Bank and Gaza if no funding is received.

The Independent UK

World Bank approves $300 million financing to help poor people in Lebanon

The World Bank has approved a $300 million additional financing to Lebanon's poor, giving cash to families struggling in the country’s historic economic meltdown

Radio France Internationale

UN Security Council to meet on Sudan as a million are displaced by violence

The United Nations has called an emergency Security Council meeting on the fighting in Sudan, which has displaced an estimated one million people since it broke out a month ago.

Al Jazeera

Official Cyclone Mocha death toll in Myanmar rises to 145

Official death toll surges as the UN says at least 800,000 people in need of emergency food aid and other assistance.

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Reuters

A second exile: Sudanese refugees flee again to destitute Chad

Fleeing the village to escape from attackers, crossing a desert border, building a shelter from straw and rags, waiting for food aid: these are familiar hardships for Halime Adam Moussa, who has fled Sudan for Chad with her family for a second time.

Reuters

Explainer-What happens if Black Sea grain corridor deal is not extended?

A deal allowing Ukraine to export grain via the Black Sea expires on May 18, with Kyiv hoping for an extension and Moscow pushing a list of demands in return for its support.

The National (Scotland)

Charities call for more eyes on plight of Sudanese people following evacuations

HUMANITARIAN organisations have urged the international community and media to place more attention on those still struggling in war-torn Sudan...

The Independent UK

Bangladesh, Myanmar bracing as Cyclone Mocha set to make landfall

Bangladesh and Myanmar are bracing as an extremely severe cyclone is set to hit their coastal areas, as authorities told thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter

Reuters

UN's WFP calls for urgent funding to assist 2.3 million people in need of food in Chad

The United Nations World Food Programme said on Thursday it urgently requires $162.4 million to support the government of Chad in assisting 2.3 million people in urgent need of food, including over 30,000 who recently fled the conflict in Sudan.

Al Jazeera

US ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Sudan ceasefire talks

Official says US-backed talks seek ‘narrow’ goal of securing ceasefire before working towards permanent end to fighting.

The Independent UK

South Sudanese flee Sudan's conflict yet return to crisis

More than 40,000 people have crossed into South Sudan since neighboring Sudan erupted into conflict nearly one month ago

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