Famine
News, comment and features on famine
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UK pledges £35m to Afghanistan as food crisis worsensSevere food insecurity is predicted to affect almost half of the country’s rural population by early next year -
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Famine in Yemen could become one of worst in living memory, UN saysCountry is in ‘clear and present danger’ of mass deaths from starvation, top aid official says
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One in five North Korean children malnourished, says UN chief during rare visitUN official touring country said there were also issues with access to clean water and lack of medical supplies
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The year's top development stories: 2017 in reviewAs Donald Trump cut funding for family planning and people from east Africa to Yemen went hungry, peace finally gained a foothold in Colombia -
South Sudan's warring parties agree ceasefire in bid to end four-year warThe deal, which begins on Sunday, was signed by government forces, and several armed opposition groups -
Letters: As the South Sudan conflict enters its fifth year, 31 British parliamentarians call on the UK government to redouble its efforts to support peace in the countryUK government must step up its support for South Sudan -
Aid adverts featuring ‘white saviours’ may bring in cash but they remove dignity from those in crisis, says author Afua Hirsch
Ed Sheeran means well but this poverty porn has to stop
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British risk complicity in Yemen 'famine crime', says Alex de WaalAfrica analyst believes UN inaction makes security council members accessories to crisis in Arab nation gripped by cholera, hunger and violence -
'Famine as mass atrocity': in conversation with Alex de Waal – podcastWhen the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, they planned to starve 30 million people to death. Seven decades on, famine as a weapon of war is making a comebackPodcast
Britain’s direct complicity in the war in Yemen must end