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Famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza, as the entire population of the strip experiences high levels of food insecurity amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to a newly released report. The report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative said a famine in the north of the strip …

A day after President Biden asserted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was “hurting Israel more than helping Israel,” Mr. Netanyahu dismissed that contention as “wrong,” escalating the leaders’ increasingly public dispute. Mr. Netanyahu, in an interview with Politico, challenged Mr. Biden’s assessment of Israel’s military strategy in the …

Reno Omokri has berated Peter Obi for describing reports of Nigeria receiving food aid from war-torn Ukraine as a National disaster.    Obi in a post shared today said while it is commendable for Ukraine to give Nigerians food, the gesture shows how Nigeria has become less productive as it …

A Nigerian cleric in the diaspora has berated the Yorubas for staging protests over hunger and economic hardship.    In a video making the rounds on social media, the clergyman who spoke in Yoruba asked his kinsmen if they had been cursed for speaking against the Tinubu administration.    In …

Research associate, Tania Eulalia Martínez Cruz from Oaxaca, Mexico shows how intercropping assists communities remain self-sufficient. Credit: Conrado Perez/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday, December 15, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Dec 15 (IPS) – The world is not on track to end hunger and poverty as a future of growing …

6.5% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean suffers from hunger, or 43.2 million people. Credit: FAO Opinion by Mario Lubetkin (santiago) Friday, November 10, 2023 Inter Press Service SANTIAGO, Nov 10 (IPS) – Mario Lubetkin is FAO Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the …

The poorest people in some of the least responsible regions for climate change or emissions – like East Africa – are losing their lives and livelihoods to human-induced climate change. Credit: Charles Karis/IPS Opinion by Amitabh Behar, Fati NZi Hassane (nairobi) Wednesday, September 06, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Sep 06 …

Spain’s FA president, Luis Rubiales’ mother, Angeles Bejar been rushed to hospital after suffering a ‘panic attack’ on the third day of her hunger strike over her son’s kissing scandal.   The parish priest at the church in Motril, southern Spain, where she was staging the protest confirmed the news, saying she …

The mother of Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has locked herself inside a church and gone on a hunger strike in support of her son.   Angeles Bejar demanded an end to the ‘inhumane witch-hunt’ after he kissed Spain player Jenni Hermoso on the lips following their Women’s World Cup …

Mr. Griffiths said that the conflict spelled trauma for Sudan’s youth and cited “deeply disturbing” reports that some children were being used in the fighting. He also warned that hundreds of thousands of children in the country were severely malnourished and “at imminent risk of death” if left untreated. Those …