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UN warns of catastrophic humanitarian consequences in Gaza amid worsening famine, food crisis
07 Jul 2025 13:34 GMT
Palestinian boys drag bags of items salvaged from a garbage waste dump in the Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 7, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
New York: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) …
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[Drought Threatens Agriculture and Deepens Food Crisis in Yemen
04 Jul 2025 11:46 GMT
… – Yemen is facing an escalating food crisis as prolonged drought conditions and … irrigation systems.
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO … sustained international support, Yemen’s food crisis will continue to spiral. The …
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Agencies race to prevent new food crisis as locusts return to northern Africa
03 Jul 2025 18:54 GMT
Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa after following ideal breeding conditions in late 2024 and early 2025, raising fears of major locust infestations moving south into the Sahel later this year.
The Commission for Controlling …
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UN: More than 700,000 Palestinians displaced in Gaza since March
08 Jul 2025 14:51 GMT
The United Nations (UN) warns that more than 700, … News and Media in the UN’s Department of Public Information … famine, which indicates a severe food crisis characterized by widespread food consumption …
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FAO launches groundbreaking financing facility to help prevent food crises before they escalate
01 Jul 2025 19:45 GMT
… United Nations (FAO) today launched the Financing for Shock-Driven Food Crisis … the world responds to food crisis—moving from reactive emergency … Programme (WFP) and the UN Office for the Coordination … 2025 Global Report on Food Crises, more than 295 million …
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Syria's wheat war: drought fuels food crisis for 16 million
27 Jun 2025 02:29 GMT
Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity.
"The country has not seen such bad climate conditions …
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Civil Society Groups Boycott UN Food Summit Over Corporate Influence
05 Jul 2025 04:24 GMT
… and failure to address structural food crises.
The coalition, representing 500+ … 2021 summit. Despite dialogues with UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed … Roadmap, advocating instead for binding UN treaties to regulate transnational corporations …
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UN Raises Alarm as Yemen’s Food Crisis Devours Lives
23 Jun 2025 09:35 GMT
(MENAFN) Three United Nations bodies issued a stark warning on Sunday, highlighting that nearly 5 million individuals in Yemen’s southern regions are currently grappling with food insecurity, a situation poised to worsen drastically unless immediate help …
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UN Raises Alarm as Yemen’s Food Crisis Devours Lives
23 Jun 2025 09:16 GMT
(MENAFN) Three United Nations bodies issued a stark warning on Sunday, highlighting that nearly 5 million individuals in Yemen’s southern regions are currently grappling with food insecurity, a situation poised to worsen drastically unless immediate help …
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Heavy taxes, illegal checkpoints pinch South Sudan farmers, amid food crisis
19 Jun 2025 15:23 GMT
By Kei Emmanuel Duku
Across South Sudan, farmers are overburdened with multiple taxes and illegal checkpoints, making agricultural inputs costly for food production in the country.
Farmers are appealing to the government to enforce long-standing tax …