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Drought and floods drove them from their homes. But hunger and poverty have followed them to a Mogadishu camp
ByMoulid Hujale in Burhakaba June 6, 2026

More than 6.5 million Somalis have been pushed to the brink of severe hunger as the climate crisis, fighting and cuts in aid leave a trail of despairFor three years, Zeynab Ibrahim watched as her little town shrivelled up and died. The rains never came…

Read More Drought and floods drove them from their homes. But hunger and poverty have followed them to a Mogadishu camp
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Hunger increasingly used as weapon of war as ‘food-related violence’ surges, analysis shows
ByMark Townsend May 24, 2026

More than 20,000 attacks on markets, farmland and food distribution systems have been recorded since 2018Hunger is being increasingly exploited as a weapon of war with more than 20,000 documented incidents of “food-related violence” in the past eight y…

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UK to call for end to Sudan bloodshed at Berlin talks on third anniversary of war
ByMark Townsend April 14, 2026

British aid to double as 19m people face acute hunger, but summit unlikely to end conflict amid Saudi-UAE tensions The British foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, will urge Sudan’s warring parties to “cease bloodshed” during a major conference on Wednesd…

Read More UK to call for end to Sudan bloodshed at Berlin talks on third anniversary of war
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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…

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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‘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 …

Read More ‘A donkey cart out of El Fasher costs more than a new car’: how 500 days under siege is tearing the city apart
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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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