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‘It's time to step up’: UN pleas with billionaires amid food insecurity rise

THE head of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) told billionaires it is “time to step up” as the global threat of food insecurity rises with…

The National (Scotland)

India supplies another 40,000 metric tonnes of diesel to crisis-hit Sri Lanka

Meanwhile, Japan has also announced its decision to provide $1.5 million through the World Food Programme for essential food rations

The Hindu

UN cutting refugee rations in Africa's Sahel amid 'alarming' food insecurity

Food rations for refugees and displaced people are being cut by up to half in parts of the Sahel due to a massive funding shortfall with millions set to go hungry as prices rise and climate shocks hit yields, U.N. agencies said on Friday.

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Ragan to Asharq Al-Awsat: Yemen Needs $2 Billion Annually to Secure Food

United Nations World Food Program Representative in Yemen Richard Ragan confirmed that the recent UN-sponsored truce in Yemen had brought hope to Yemenis and eased the movement of humanitarian organizations and the distribution of aid. Ragan hoped the ceasefire would be permanent. In exclusive statements to Asharq Al-Awsat, Ragan described…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine war fuels food crisis in distant Africa

Zimbabwean security guard Edwin Dapi was already struggling to provide for his wife and four children before a conflict 11,000 km (6,800 miles) away in Ukraine sent global prices for grains, cooking oils, fuel and fertilizer soaring.

Reuters

Assad Signs Iranian Credit Line to Supply Syria with Energy

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signed an Iranian credit line during a surprise visit to Tehran on Sunday, Syrian local media reported. The official Syrian News Agency (SANA) said that Assad had signed a “new phase” of the credit line, which included supplying Syria with energy and other basic materials to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Ukraine's wheat fields, farmers have formed a quiet resistance against Vladimir Putin's occupation

As Vladimir Putin's army invaded, photos and videos of broken-down Russian tanks being stolen by farmers on tractors has delighted many Ukrainians. It's just one of the ways local farmers are fighting back against Russia's invasion.

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Syrians in desperate need of aid hit hard by Ukraine fallout

Fallout from the 2-month-old war in Ukraine is worsening long-term humanitarian crises elsewhere, including in Syria

The Independent UK

How the Russia-Ukraine war, COVID and climate change are fuelling a growing global food crisis

There are warnings that catastrophe is looming and 44 million people are on the verge of famine as the war in Ukraine fuels already record-high food prices.

ABC News

UN agency in talks with India on wheat procurement amid Ukraine war

World Food Programme report talks of a three-dimensional crisis — food, energy and finance

The Hindu

Malnourished kids crowd hospital as Ethiopia hit by worst drought in 40 years

Malnourished children are flooding into the paediatric ward of the main hospital in Ethiopia's Gode city as the worst drought for 40 years has forced many families to leave their homes to search for aid.

Reuters

War in Ukraine is pushing global acute hunger to the highest level in this century

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced a terrible humanitarian crisis in eastern Europe. It also is worsening conditions for other countries, many of them thousands of miles away.

The Conversation

Six months since coup, Sudan promises to keep up democracy fight

A brutal military crackdown has upended countless lives, but has not broken the spirit of the pro-democracy movement.

Al Jazeera

‘My children cry with hunger’: refugees denied UN aid rations at Malawi camp

Hundreds at Dzaleka camp told they are no longer eligible for food supplies from the World Food Programme

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Aid groups push to feed Yemen's hungry millions during Ramadan ceasefire

A two-month ceasefire has given aid groups a chance to step up aid to Yemen's hungry millions, but malnutrition ravaging children is projected to worsen if fighting returns or humanitarian funding does not pick up.

Chicago Sun-Times

The world needs an Easter peace in Ukraine

We can all do something to support peace in Ukraine and echo the call for a truce by Pope Francis.

Al Jazeera

Families fearful as UN reduces food aid to northwest Syria

Funding constraints and skyrocketing food prices exacerbated by the war in Ukraine have forced the WFP to reduce aid.

The Independent UK

Live Updates | Russia-Ukraine War

Russia’s Defense Ministry on Friday promised to ramp up “the scale of missile attacks” on Kyiv in response to Ukraine’s “diversions on the Russian territory.”

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The Independent UK

The AP Interview: UN food chief says Mariupol is starving

The head of the U.N.’s World Food Program says people are being “starved to death” in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, and he predicted the country’s humanitarian crisis is likely to worsen as Russia intensifies its assault in the coming weeks

The Independent UK

How crops grow independence in Bangladesh

Business skills training from the World Food Programme means self-sufficiency for a community facing food insecurities

Axios

How governments are multiplying aid to Ukraine

The vast majority of aid to Ukraine is coming from governments, not individuals.

Tribune News Service

Climate change is making Afghanistan’s hunger crisis worse

Drought had already devastated Allawddin Rahimi’s wheat fields when the Taliban reached his village in northern Afghanistan. The group’s takeover left him with no choice but to flee.

Al Jazeera

The perilous road to recovery in Madagascar’s cyclone-hit east

Al Jazeera travelled along Madagascar’s ravaged coast, where residents feel left behind weeks after deadly storms.

The Independent UK

A green island turns red: Madagascans struggle through long drought

Madagascar has always known extreme weather events, but scientists say these are likely to increase in frequency and severity as the climate crisis pushes temperatures higher

The Guardian - UK

How war in Ukraine is affecting food supply in Africa and the Middle East

Prices of basics such as oil and wheat are shooting up and shortages are showing on supermarket shelves in Lebanon, Somalia and Egypt

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