US urges UN Security Council action to get aid into Sudan from Chad
United Nations Reuters The United States warned on Thursday that it would push the UN Security Council to take action to get aid to starving people in Sudan, possibly by authorising cross-border deliveries from Chad, if the Sudanese armed forces do not restore full access. Ahead of the one year anniversary of the conflict in […]
Initial autopsies show children starved, asphyxiated in Kenyan cult
Nairobi, KenyaReuters The bodies of several children exhumed in eastern Kenya showed signs of starvation and in some cases asphyxiation, a government pathologist said on Monday, as investigators began the first autopsies on over 100 people linked to a doomsday cult. On Monday investigators said they had completed 10 autopsies, comprising nine children aged between […]
“It got us by surprise”: As death toll mounts in Kenya church, local clergy wonder at scale of indoctrination
FREDRICK NZWILI, of Religion News Service, reports from Kenya…
Four Kenyans, told their work on Earth was done, fast to death, police say
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Fifteen “radicalised” Kenyan Christians were rescued on Friday from a fast which began after they were told they were going to meet their maker, but four died during the rescue mission, police said. All 15 were members of the Good News International Church in the coastal county of Kilifi, police said. “In […]
Nearly a million people face starvation in hunger hotspots – UN agencies
London, UKReuters Nearly one million people in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen are starving or will face starvation this year in the absence of aid, as the global food crisis worsens, United Nations agencies warned on Wednesday. Local conflict and weather extremes remain the primary drivers of acute hunger, aggravated this year by […]
Essay: Food and fighting – five ways that conflict causes hunger
HEATHER KEITH, of Baptist World Aid Australia, looks at the connection between conflicts and food crises around the world…
Essay: Starving civilians is an ancient military tactic, but today it’s a war crime in Ukraine, Yemen, Tigray and elsewhere
In an article first published on The Conversation, scholars TOM DANNENBAUM, ALEX DE WAAL and DANIEL MAXWELL say that it’s time to confront the criminality of the practice of using starvation as a weapon of war…
Famine risk rises in Somalia as rains fail, food prices soar – UN
London, UKReuters Nearly a quarter of a million people are facing starvation in Somalia as a drought worsens and global food prices hover near record highs, United Nations agencies said on Monday. The agencies said a fourth consecutive rainy season had failed in the Horn of Africa country and meteorologists were warning of another below-average […]
Dead buildings tower over uncollected corpses in Mariupol, on the front line of Ukraine’s war
Mariupol, Ukraine Reuters In Mariupol daily life is a series of harrowing escapes from bomb blasts and basic survival rituals, amid the rubble that lies everywhere. Uncollected corpses wrapped in blankets, coats or any available covering lie in courtyards cleared of debris. Those killed are often buried in common graves. A woman reacts while speaking […]
Essay: Kim Jong-un’s decade in power – Starvation, repression and brutal rule – just like his father and grandfather
In an article first published on The Conversation, SUNG-YOON LEE, professor of Korean Studies at Tufts University in the US, looks at King Jong-un’s 10 years as North Korean leader…