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Hunger

August 2024

  • Two Nigerians protesters gold up a sign saying 'hungry'

    Up to seven reportedly dead in Nigeria after clashes between police and citizens

  • A white man in a suit bnext to Brazil's flag gestures while speaking at a conference

    Opinion
    Brazil led the way. Now the UK should get behind the assault on hunger and poverty

    Kevin Watkins

July 2024

  • Empty plates laid out to symbolise the 733.4 million people living with hunger worldwide. The central message in red reads: End the global food crisis now. Round the edge is written: Millions of people have empty plates every day

    Africa to overtake Asia with highest number of hungry people by 2030, says UN

    Annual report says climate crisis, conflict and economic shocks leave the global food system ‘disastrously vulnerable’
  • Women and children sit among washing drying on the line at a camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso

    ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso

    About 10% of the population is displaced and 40 of the west African country’s cities are cut off from aid – but agencies say they have only 17% of the funding needed to help
  • Women carrying children queue outside a clinic

    Child malnutrition crisis in Nigeria amid rural violence and soaring food inflation

    MSF says it is overwhelmed in country where 31.8 million people are suffering from hunger

June 2024

  • Children holding pots and pans gathering round a huge pot of soup or stew,

    One in five households in Gaza go whole days without food, draft UN report says

  • An image taken from a video released by the Just Stop Oil climate campaign group shows activists spraying orange powder paint at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

    Brief letters
    Get mad about the continuing use of oil, not harmless orange powder paint

  • A red combine harvests soybeans and pours them into a green container on the back of a tractor, with grain silos in the background.

    Economist suggests storing grain to prepare for next global emergency

  • A baby wearing a red hijab sits in a blue bucket to be weighed

    One in four young children at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to poor diet – report

  • Starvation already causing many deaths and lasting harm in Gaza, agencies say

  • Children die of malnutrition as Rafah operation heightens threat of famine in Gaza

May 2024

  • A man with boxes on his head walking among piles of brown boxes in a warehouse

    ‘When he is older there will be no rain’: how southern Madagascar is coping in a climate crisis

    The island nation is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world, as changing weather patterns bring more dry spells and unpredictable rainy seasons. Sean Smith travelled to the south to meet those affected and to report on the ways they are trying to prepare for an altered future
  • People on boats move through floodwater on a flooded street in Porto Alegre

    Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

    Climate chaos is threatening food production, trade and lives, says World Meteorological Organization
  • Crowds of people wait at an MSF clinic clinic in Zamzam camp, 15km from El Fasher, North Darfur.

    Essential supplies running out as RSF paramilitary encircles Darfur’s largest city

    The population of El Fasher, which includes thousands of displaced people, is in ‘dire need of food, medicine and water’

April 2024

  • People hold pots as volunteers distribute food in Omdurman, Sudan, September 3, 2023. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig

    Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    At last G20 is showing how to finance an assault on poverty

    Larry Elliott

March 2024

  • Lotfi Gheith (L), the emergency operations centre director for the Egyptian Red Crescent, briefs United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (C) about items rejected by Israeli authorities that were bound for the Gaza Strip, at El-Arish International Airport in Egypt's northeastern province of North Sinai

    UN calls for humanitarian ceasefire amid urgent efforts to avoid Gaza famine

  • Children sit listlessly by bags of flat bread

    Onions sell for 50 times usual price in Gaza as Palestinians scramble for food

  • People collect food parcels from Newcastle West End food bank in November 2022

    300,000 more UK children fell into absolute poverty at height of cost of living crisis

  • Volunteers of World Central Kitchen hand out food to Palestinian children in the mobile kitchens they have brought to Rafah, Gaza.

    The Guardian view on famine in Gaza: a human-made catastrophe

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