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South Korea warns that death from starvation appears to be rising in many of the North’s provincesThe major North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has said that relying on external aid to cope with food shortages would be the same as taking “poison…
Read MoreA toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisisGlobal hunger toll soars by 150m as Covid and war make their markThe world is in the grip of an unprecedented hunger crisis…
Read MoreFormer security and diplomatic chiefs warn that country is at risk of economic collapse as Taliban begin talks in NorwayAfghanistan can only be saved from state collapse and widespread starvation if the definition of legitimate humanitarian aid to the …
Read MoreNearly 700,000 people have been forced from their homes in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2021, joining 2.9 million Afghans already internally displaced across the country at the end of 2020. The withdrawal of foreign aid after the Taliban took ove…
Read MoreBacking is also given to UN resolution exempting most aid from threat of sanctionsThe US has eased its restrictions on mainstream humanitarian aid reaching famine-stricken Afghanistan and backed a UN security council resolution exempting most aid from …
Read MoreThe west must not stand by and allow a million children to die of starvation this winterDuring 20 years of war in Afghanistan, according to the US-based Watson Institute’s Costs of War Project, about 176,000 people were killed, of whom 46,000 were civi…
Read MoreAs its economy implodes and the food crisis grows, its people feel betrayed. No wonderThe global attention has dissipated, but the crisis is intensifying. The bleak year that Afghans have endured is turning to a still bleaker winter. The UN World Food …
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Read MoreAs deaths are reported in crush at Kabul airport, Keir Starmer leads calls for Dominic Raab to resign over UK’s ‘complacent’ responseAfghanistan is facing an “absolute catastrophe” involving widespread hunger, homelessness and economic collapse unless …
Read MoreThe world’s poorest are becoming poorer as the impact of Covid compounds existing crises, says Disaster Emergency ComitteeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThousands could starve in the world’s most fragile states as the pande…
Read More21 October 1943: Viceroy Lord Linlithgow is accused of a failure to anticipate the food shortage and to evolve a policy of proper distributionDelhi, October 20Calcutta’s rapidly rising mortality gives some indication of Bengal’s suffering, last week’s …
Read MoreStarvation looms from Afghanistan to Haiti as coronavirus restrictions wipe out incomes and cut food suppliesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMillions of people are being pushed towards hunger by the coronavirus pandemic, whi…
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