Taliban liars will never change
LUKE COFFEY January 13, 2023 The winter months are a time of hardship and hunger for many Afghans, of whom an estimated 97 percent are threatened with poverty. This winter, […]
Food insecurity threatens the Middle East
BY IRFAN ASHRAF OCT 14, 2022 – DAILY SABAH Illustration by Reuters. RECOMMENDED What’s happening in climate change negotiations? CLIMATE-CHANGE The Middle East is beatified with the highest rate of […]
Pakistan’s natural disaster to become a ‘nutrition disaster’
BY OZER KHALID SEP 30, 2022 – DAILY SABAH Flood victims gather to receive food handout in a camp, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Sehwan, Pakistan, […]
6M Aghans at risk of famine, UN warns amid growing crises
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS AUG 30, 2022 – DAILY SABAH A family eat lunch in their home in one of Kabul’s poor neighborhoods in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 21, 2022.(AP Photo) RECOMMENDED Pakistan faces more deluges, deaths after crossing grim mark PAKISTAN Warning that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6 million […]
Ukraine war: WTO boss warns of global food crisis
By Tom EspinerBusiness reporter, BBC NewsPublished11 hours agoShare Related Topics Russia-Ukraine war A food crisis kicked off by the Ukraine war could last for years without intervention, the head of […]
How Africa’s local knowledge can address global crises
May 26,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Fatoumata Nafo BAMAKO, MALI — When I returned home to Mali in 2019 after two decades working across Africa and the rest of the world, I found it difficult to recognise the place. The optimism spurred by the country’s development in the 1990s had […]
The global hunger crisis is here
May 22,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Seta Tutundjian DUBAI — Global food prices are soaring. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Food Price Index, which covers a basket of […]
The Great Starvation is coming, and the world must prepare for it
/ / April 21, 2022 at 8:09 pm | Published in: Article, Coronavirus, Europe & Russia, Opinion, Russia, Ukraine Farmers inspect the wheat plants during their production process in Nile Delta province of al-Minufiyah, Egypt on 25 […]
A perfect storm for developing countries
NGAIRE WOODS April 22, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/9zaa6 Through no fault of their own, developing countries face a perfect storm of famine, political upheaval and debt crises. Russia’s invasion of […]
Ukraine war serves as wake-up call on food-import dependent Middle East
Previous 0 seconds of 1 minute, 36 secondsVolume 40% The Ukrainian conflict’s disruption of the distribution of grain is hitting the price of staples such as bread. (AFP)Next Short Url […]
Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is preventable if we have the will
Nearly 22.8 million Afghans face acute food insecurity https://cdn.vuukle.com/widgets/powerbar.html?version=2.10.13 People sit with their belongings in the Pakistan side of the border after the authorities of Pakistan and Afghanistan close the […]
Worst drought in decades drives out 700K Afghans from homes
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS KAMAR KALAGH, AFGHANISTAN DEC 09, 2021 Ajji Wali Jan brought a half-dozen plastic containers to the well in Kamar Kalagh on a recent Friday – one of the […]
Turn over UN management to Elon Musk, let it be done!
BY MELIH ALTINOK COLUMNS NOV 04, 2021 12:05 AM GMT+3A photo illustration by Daily Sabah’s Büşra Öztürk shows Tesla CEO Elon Musk with the U.N. logo seen at the right background. The […]
Why we still haven’t solved global food insecurity
FOLLOW THE FOOD Why we still haven’t solved global food insecurity BY WILLIAM PARK The number of people living in food insecurity grows every year And the pandemic has made […]
Urgent action needed to save Afghanistan from catastrophe
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG September 07, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/m3gzm It is now clear that the 20-year effort by the US and its European allies to turn Afghanistan into a […]
Deepening food crisis compounds Afghanistan’s problems
Internally displaced Afghan families, who fled from Kunduz and Takhar province due to battles between Taliban and Afghan security forces, collect food in Kabul. (AFP/File Photo) Short Url https://arab.news/65wqq Combined […]
Exclusive: almost a fifth of UK homes with children go hungry in lockdown
Source: The Guardian New data shows families go without as parents lose income, meal voucher scheme is beset with problems and food banks can’t cope By Nosheen Iqbal; @nosheeniqbal The […]
Millions in Lebanon risk food insecurity over virus lockdown: HRW
By AFP – Apr 08,2020 – JORDAN TIMES The lockdown imposed by Lebanese authorities to stem the spread of COVID-19 has compounded poverty and economic hardship in the country, rights […]
South Sudan’s civil war may be over, but the need for humanitarian funding is ever more urgent
In 2019 a staggering 7.1 million, or around two thirds of South Sudan’s population, will require humanitarian assistance Bel Trew Gumuruk, South Sudan The Independent Voices A woman from Pibor, […]
Empowering Africa’s humanitarians
Aug 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré The scale of human suffering currently engulfing drought-stricken Somalia is almost indescribable. It is difficult to find words to convey the devastation and misery gripping the country, now in the midst of a prolonged period of record-low rainfall. I watched emaciated herds of […]