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UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid
ByMark Townsend October 24, 2025

Exclusive: In the year they announced record profits, Britain’s arms maker has revoked licence to fly for planes taking supplies of food to starving people in South Sudan, Somalia and DRCBritain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has quietly …

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UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid
ByMark Townsend October 24, 2025

Exclusive: In the year they announced record profits, Britain’s arms maker has revoked licence to fly for planes taking supplies of food to starving people in South Sudan, Somalia and DRCBritain’s biggest weapons manufacturer, BAE Systems, has quietly …

Read More UK’s biggest weapons firm BAE grounds ‘lifeline’ aircraft delivering food aid
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‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps
ByKaamil Ahmed in Metche October 8, 2025

As the war in Sudan pushes more people across the border, malnutrition is on the rise in Chad’s remote settlements where 86% of the refugees are women and childrenFor hours, jolting along the waterlogged dirt track to the hospital, 18-year-old Makka Ib…

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‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps
ByKaamil Ahmed in Metche October 8, 2025

As the war in Sudan pushes more people across the border, malnutrition is on the rise in Chad’s remote settlements where 86% of the refugees are women and childrenFor hours, jolting along the waterlogged dirt track to the hospital, 18-year-old Makka Ib…

Read More ‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps
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‘A donkey cart out of El Fasher costs more than a new car’: how 500 days under siege is tearing the city apart
BySarra Majdoub September 27, 2025

The ongoing attacks on North Darfur’s capital has left its people facing starvation, blockade and bombardment, with scant hope of reliefSpecial report: ‘We will never, ever escape’: inside the ever-tightening siege of the Sudanese city of El FasherFor …

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Donald Trump could stop Gaza’s famine. Instead he’s following Biden’s lead | Mohamad Bazzi
ByMohamad Bazzi August 29, 2025

A hunger-monitoring group has confirmed what we already knew about Palestinians’ suffering. The US has the power to end itA global hunger-monitoring group declared last week that Gaza’s largest city and its surrounding area were suffering from an “enti…

Read More Donald Trump could stop Gaza’s famine. Instead he’s following Biden’s lead | Mohamad Bazzi
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‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
ByAhmed Kamal Junina August 19, 2025

It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matterI must admit: I write this piece while starving – too hungry to think clearly, too weak to sit upright for l…

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How will Israel’s ‘humanitarian pauses’ affect Gaza’s starvation crisis?
ByWilliam Christou and Malak A Tantesh July 27, 2025

Israel says it will ease blockade but has not clarified if it will allow supplies at scale needed to reverse hunger crisisPalestinians wary as Israel begins military pauses to allow ‘minimal’ aid into GazaOn Sunday morning, Israel announced it would be…

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MSF reports tripling of severe malnutrition in under-5s at Gaza City clinic
ByMalak A Tantesh in Gaza and William Christou in Jerusalem July 25, 2025

Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled since May and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’• Middle East crisis – live updatesRates of severe malnutrition among children aged under five at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Ga…

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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
ByMalak A Tantesh in Gaza and Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem July 23, 2025

For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidlyStarvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scarsMohammed’s skeletal arms stick out of a romper with a grinni…

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