starvation

Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, in Gaza City, May 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Middle East

Aid trucks enter Gaza after delays, as pressure mounts on Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would be open to a temporary ceasefire to enable the return of hostages. But otherwise he said it would press ahead with a military campaign to gain...

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

Palestinian children carry pots as they queue to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid shortages in food supplies, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 14, 2023. REUTERS/Saleh Salem/File photo
Hamas-Israel war

Gaza children dizzy from hunger as war impedes food deliveries

A smoke plume erupts during Israeli bombardment on the northern Gaza Strip near the border with southern Israel on December 17, 2023. Photo: AFP
Hamas-Israel war

Israel bombs Gaza amid accusation it is 'starving' Palestinians

Seventeen-year-old Louch Vi feeds her two sons at her hut in the Mondulkiri region of Cambodia on Feb. 9, 2018. Louch said she and her sons go days at a time without food. FRANCESCO BREMBATI FOR FOREIGN POLICY
Global Economy

High inflation means children go hungry around the world

FILE PHOTO: A malnourished girl lies on a bed at the malnutrition treatment ward of al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen October 27, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo
Global Economy

More than 700 million people don't know when — or if — they will eat again, UN food chief says

Naomi Kahindi, who lost her sister and her children, all of them followers of a Christian cult named "Good News International Church", who believed they would go to heaven, if they starved themselves to death in Shakahola, mourns at the Malindi sub district hospital mortuary in Malindi, Kilifi county, Kenya April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi
Africa

Initial autopsies show children starved, asphyxiated in Kenyan cult

A starving refugee family counting their days for the war to end so they can return home. Photo: Collected
Supplement

The unfortunate people who carry the wounds of the war

A general view of a rice field in North Korea's propaganda village Kaepoong in this picture taken from the top of the Aegibong Peak Observatory, south of the demilitarised zone (DMZ), separating the two Koreas in Gimpo, South Korea, October 5, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo
World+Biz

UN expert calls for N.Korea sanctions to be eased as starvation risk looms

We must do more. Photographer: Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg
Analysis

Starvation is as much a threat to Afghan women as the Taliban

Demonstrators hold placards with pictures of Aung San Suu Kyi as they protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, February 22, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
South Asia

UN rights envoy warns of risk of starvation in Myanmar's Kayah State

FILE PHOTO: A malnourished girl lies on a bed at the malnutrition treatment ward of al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen October 27, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo
World+Biz

At least 400,000 Yemeni children under 5 could die of starvation this year: UN agencies

Tears that wash your soul
Thoughts

Tears that wash your soul