Famine

European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a joint news conference with Lebanon's caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib in Beirut, Lebanon 6 January 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
World+Biz

Hunger being used 'as a war arm' in Gaza, EU's Borrell charges

Despite not naming Israel, Borrell asserted that the crisis was man-made, not a natural disaster

Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 5 March 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
World+Biz

Britain to warn Israel's Gantz over famine in Gaza

Palestinians with children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 13 February 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo
Middle East

Famine looms in Gaza: How will the world know it has arrived?

Displaced Palestinians wait to receive free food at a tent camp, amid food shortages, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 February, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Hamas-Israel war

UN agency warns of ‘looming famine’ in Gaza amid Israel war

Displaced Palestinians wait to receive free food at a tent camp, amid food shortages, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 February, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
World+Biz

One quarter of Gaza's people one step away from famine, UN says

Children suffer amid food crisis. File Photo: BSS
World+Biz

'Man-made' Gaza famine can still be avoided: UN agency

An Israeli military vehicle drives near damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from southern Israel, December 19, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Hamas-Israel war

War pushing Gaza to famine, UN warns

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a working session of G7 leaders via video link, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 27, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via
Europe

Zelensky says impossible to forgive 'genocide' of Stalin-era famine

BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas. File Photo: Collected
Politics

Artificial famine being created in country using syndicates: Mirza Abbas

Photo: Collected
Africa

African climate summit seeks to shift focus to finance from floods, famine

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

PM orders vigil against return of 'Monga'

A security officer is seen at the opening of the 36th Ordinary session of the Assembly of the African Union at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 18, 2023. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
Global Economy

UN allocates $250 million for crises like famine threat in Africa

Labourers offload bags of grains as part of relief food that was sent from Ukraine at the World Food Program (WFP) warehouse in Adama town, Ethiopia, September 8, 2022. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
Global Economy

Ukraine says ship with wheat for Ethiopia arrives, part of anti-famine push