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World Food Program
750,000 in Somalia to lose U.N. food assistance due to funding collapse
Somalia is staring at a worsening hunger crisis as the United Nations food agency warns it will be forced to cut emergency rations for hundreds of thousands due to a lack of funds. The World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday that its assistance will drop dramatically, cutting the number of recipients from 1.1 million…
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U.N. raises alarm as 91 die in besieged Darfur city during September attacks
91 civilians were killed in Sudan’s embattled city of el-Fasher over a span of 10 days...
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Drone strike destroys U.N. food convoy in Sudan’s famine-hit North Darfur
A U.N. relief mission to Sudan’s North Darfur ended in disaster this week when a drone...
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U.N. Security Council condemns Sudan paramilitary’s rival government plans
The U.N. Security Council has rebuked Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...
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UN condemns fatal assault on famine-stricken Darfur camp that left 40 dead
A famine-stricken camp for displaced families in Sudan’s Darfur region has suffered yet another deadly blow, with at least 40 people killed in a paramilitary assault that the United Nations condemned...
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UN sounds alarm over Nigeria’s deepening hunger crisis as funding for food aid runs dry across West and Central Africa
An alarming hunger emergency is sweeping through Nigeria, where nearly 31 million people now face acute food insecurity, a crisis the United Nations is calling “unprecedented.” At the heart...
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Obama, Bush and Bono decry USAID shutdown, blame Trump administration
In a poignant and private farewell, former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush joined U2 frontman Bono in bidding a tearful goodbye to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), as the...
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Sudan gripped by world’s worst humanitarian crisis ahead of war’s second anniversary — UN
A devastating war nearing its two-year mark has plunged Sudan into what the United Nations now describes as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, making it the only country currently experiencing...
