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  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    War and climate put 45mn people at risk of famine

    Food insecurity is likely to worsen in 19 ‘hunger hotspots’, UN food agencies forecast

    child refugee sitting outside a tent
  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    OutlookJude Webber
    Lessons from Irish history on the consequences of ignoring the famine in Somalia

    Bob Geldof’s recent speech highlights the parallels between the ‘Forgotten Ones’ then and now

  • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
    Gareth Owen
    We know how to deal with famines but we are failing in Somalia

    The lives of 400,000 malnourished children hang in the balance while funding stalls

    Mothers wearing hijabs wait for high nutrition foods and health services in Somalia
  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Climate change
    War and climate shocks put 49mn people at risk of famine this year

    Food insecurity to worsen in 46 countries as ‘hunger hotspots’ exacerbated by conflict and extreme weather

    Conflict and organised violence were the main sources of food insecurity in Africa and the Middle East
  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Africa
    Horn of Africa ravaged by worst drought in four decades

    Up to 20mn people could go hungry as delayed rains exacerbate fallout from war in Ukraine

    People stand near the carcasses of dead animals in Gabia camp for Internally Displaced People near Gode, Ethiopia
  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Putin’s war threatens millions with hunger

    The poorest must be protected against the impact of rising food costs

    A baker carries bread in El-Kalubia governorate, northeast of Cairo, on March 1. Russia and Ukraine account for roughly 30 per cent of global exports of wheat and barley
  • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Afghanistan’s unnecessary plight

    Taking a rigid stand against the Taliban leaves Afghans starving

    An Afghan child and women hold bread in front of a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan
  • Thursday, 23 December, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Spare a thought for Afghanistan this Christmas

    A humanitarian carve-out to UN sanctions is a welcome but belated step

    Afghan men sit along with food packets being distributed by the members of World Food Programme (WFP) to the needy families in Kandahar on December 23, 2021
  • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Ethiopia is a tragedy for the whole of Africa

    War in Tigray unleashed old hatreds and brought low a growth model

    Amhara Fano militia fighters walk in the ransacked terminal at the Lalibela airport in Lalibela, on December 7
  • Friday, 17 December, 2021
    News in-depthAfghanistan
    ‘Now I have nothing’: economic collapse pushes Afghanistan to brink of famine

    Nato powers face re-engaging with Taliban and unfreezing the financial system or watching millions starve

    Babies receive treatment for malnutrition at a facility in Herat
  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Afghanistan’s slide towards famine must be halted

    Extending emergency aid does not imply legitimising the Taliban

    People wait in queues to receive cash at a money distribution centre organised by the World Food Programme in Kabul, Afghanistan
  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    Afghanistan
    Afghans in remote areas must receive food aid within weeks, agencies warn

    Fears of humanitarian crisis as economic conditions worsen and winter sets in

    Food aid being distributed in Kabul
  • Friday, 29 October, 2021
    North Korea
    Hungry North Koreans told to eat ‘delicious’ black swans

    UN warns that food crisis is worsening with children and the elderly most at risk

    Black swans at the Kwangpho Duck Farm on North Korea’s east coast
  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    News in-depthFood security
    Ethiopian famine fears: ‘There’s no food in Tigray’

    One of Africa’s fastest-growing economies plunged into crisis as conflict persists

    A mother sits with her malnourished baby in Tigray, Ethiopia in May 2021
  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Yemen
    Yemen crisis deepens as coronavirus devastates health system

    UN warns millions of children at risk of starvation due to shortfalls in humanitarian funding

    A five-year-old girl suffering from acute malnutrition sleeps on a bed inside an improvised house in Hajjah, Yemen
  • Monday, 13 May, 2019
    News in-depthUS-China trade dispute
    US farmers fret over China trade threat to aid deal

    Plan to buy surplus crops leaves soya farmers in uncharted territory

  • Tuesday, 13 November, 2018
    Yemen
    Yemen urged to end ‘economic war’ on its people

    Weak currency and withheld wages exacerbate impact of Saudi-led coalition’s bombing

    TOPSHOT - CORRECTION - Yemeni pro-government forces gather on the eastern outskirts of Hodeida, as they continue to battle for the control of the city from Huthi rebels on November 8, 2018. - Yemeni pro-government forces advanced into rebel-held Hodeida today, leaving hundreds of thousands of civilians bracing for fighting in the city's streets. (Photo by Khaled Ziad / AFP) / The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by NABIL HASSAN has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [KHALED ZIAD] instead of [NABIL HASSAN]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure that the same actions are carried out by them. Failure to promptly comply with these instructions will entail liability on your part for any continued or post notification usage. Therefore we thank you very much for all your attention and prompt action. We are sorry for the inconvenience this notification may cause and remain at your disposal for any further information you may require.KHALED ZIAD/AFP/Getty Images
  • Friday, 14 September, 2018
    Drugs research
    FT Health: Cancer and quackery

    Fighting high drug prices, ‘legal highs’ and psychedelic science

    Breast cancer charity in pain plea...File photo dated 15/06/06 of a consultant analyzing a mammogram, as thousands of patients diagnosed with secondary breast cancer may be needlessly suffering from debilitating physical pain, according to a leading charity.
  • Friday, 16 February, 2018
    FT AlphavilleMatthew C Klein
    Marcus Noland explains the North Korean economy
  • Friday, 2 February, 2018
    FT Health: New year, same old problems

    Modicare, the hungry US tapeworm, record Unicef appeal

    epa06441108 A malnourished child receives treatment amid worsening malnutrition at the emergency ward of a hospital in Sana'a, Yemen, 15 January 2018. According to reports, an estimated 3.3 million children in Yemen are acutely malnourished, including 462 thousand children under the age of five who face severe acute malnutrition after two and a half years of escalating conflict between Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces and the Houthi rebels.  EPA/YAHYA ARHAB
  • Sunday, 26 November, 2017
    The FT View
    Yemen’s looming famine is on 20th-century scale

    Saudi allies risk complicity in the use of starvation as a weapon of war

    Children chant the Yemeni national anthem during a protest against the Saudi-led coalition outside the U.N. offices in Sanaa, Yemen November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
  • Sunday, 30 April, 2017
    Thousands at risk of starvation in Nigeria, aid agencies warn

    As food stocks dwindle, people at risk of famine in north of country climbs to 1.5m

    TOPSHOT - In this photo taken on September 15, 2016, women and children queue to enter one of the Unicef nutrition clinics in Muna informal settlement, which now houses more than 16,000 IDPs (internaly displaced people) in the outskirts of Maiduguri the capital of Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. Aid agencies have long warned about the risk of food shortages in northeast Nigeria because of the conflict, which has killed at least 20,000 since 2009 and left more than 2.6 million homeless. In July, the United Nations said nearly 250,000 children under five could suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year in Borno state alone and one in five -- some 50,000 -- could die. / AFP PHOTO / STEFAN HEUNISSTEFAN HEUNIS/AFP/Getty Images
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2017
    Nigeria’s president orders probe into missing aid funds

    Top civil servant suspended over humanitarian crisis contracts

    TOPSHOT - A woman and a young girl young child suffering from severe malnutrition sleep on a bed in the ICU ward at the In-Patient Therapeutic Feeding Centre in the Gwangwe district of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, on September 17, 2016. Aid agencies have long warned about the risk of food shortages in northeast Nigeria because of the conflict, which has killed at least 20,000 since 2009 and left more than 2.6 million homeless. In July, the United Nations said nearly 250,000 children under five could suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year in Borno state alone and one in five -- some 50,000 -- could die. But despite the huge numbers involved, the situation has received little attention compared with other humanitarian crises around the world -- even within Nigeria. / AFP / STEFAN HEUNIS (Photo credit should read STEFAN HEUNIS/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Thursday, 13 April, 2017
    Life & Arts
    What one meal a day looks like in the far north of Cameroon

    Chris de Bode’s photographs bear witness to a land blighted by drought

  • Friday, 7 April, 2017
    FT Health: The burden of depression

    Mental health, Stephen O’Brien, movie villains

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