UN warns Haiti’s capital blockaded, no aid for malnourished children
United Nations/Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haiti’s capital is almost completely cut off by air, sea and land blockades as gang violence intensifies, stopping aid from getting to 58,000 children with the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, the head of the UN children’s agency warned on Monday. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said two-thirds of Haiti’s children […]
Bird-feed loaf and a date wrapped in gauze: What children eat in Gaza
Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip Reuters After surviving on bitter loaves made from animal feed instead of proper flour, three young brothers who fled their home in Gaza City for a tent further south were tucking into a tub of halawa, a sweet crumbly paste. Seraj Shehada, eight, and his brothers Ismail, nine, and Saad, 11, […]
Food insecurity in Africa should be overcome in five years – AfDB head
New York, US Reuters Programs supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in over 30 African countries have helped produce some $US12 billion worth of food, and the bank’s $US25 billion objective is “well on track,” AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina said on Friday. “As far as I’m concerned, we shouldn’t be talking about food security […]
Coca price crash contributing to Colombia food insecurity – UN
Bogota, Colombia Reuters A crash in the price of coca, the chief ingredient in cocaine, is contributing to food insecurity in Colombia and causing displacement, as people leave areas that depend on the illicit crop, according to an internal United Nations presentation seen by Reuters. Historically coca crops have provided better incomes than legal alternatives […]
More than 15 million Colombians suffer food insecurity – UN
Bogota, Colombia Reuters More than 15 million Colombians suffer moderate or severe food insecurity, equivalent to almost a third of the population, due to poverty, unemployment and the Andean country’s long-running conflict, the UN World Food Programme said on Thursday. The WFP carried out investigations in Colombia between June and November last year, finding that […]
Risk of food insecurity threatens record 36 per cent of Brazilian families – study
Sao Paulo, BrazilReuters The risk of going hungry in Brazil is higher than ever, as the percentage of people unable to afford food for themselves or their family at some point during the last 12 months rose to a record 36 per cent in 2021, from 30 per cent in 2019, a newly published study […]
Wow!: Madagascan women step up from packed lunches to food processing
CHRISTOPHE VAN DER PERRE, of Reuters, reports from Madagascar on an initiative aimed at addressing food insecurity…
Millions of children go hungry in insurgency-hit north-east Nigeria – NGO
Kaduna, NigeriaReuters At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in north-east Nigeria where an Islamist insurgency has forced farmers to flee their fields and put the region on the brink of critical food shortages, humanitarian groups have warned. Attacks by Islamist militants have been intensifying in north-east Nigeria in recent months, with […]
Higher food prices help fuel 40 per cent jump in global hunger – UN agency
London, UKReuters Acute food insecurity has soared 40 per cent this year as recent food price hikes have exacerbated existing pressures from conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations World Food Programme said. Defined as any lack of food that threatens lives, livelihoods or both, acute food insecurity is impacting, or is […]
The Long Read: UN official accuses Eritrean forces of deliberately starving Tigray
In a Reuters exclusive, KATHARINE HOURELD and GIULIA PARAVICINI report on the situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray region…