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Famine

News, comment and features on famine

July 2024

  • 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

  • People form a line

    Sudan on precipice of famine ‘beyond imagination’, says outgoing UN aid chief

    Man-made crises in Gaza and Sudan leaving millions of people at risk, says retiring British diplomat Martin Griffiths
  • Two children suffering from malnutrition sit on an emaciated donkey next to a line of people

    Sudan’s warring factions using starvation as weapon, experts say

    Special rapporteurs working for UN warn famine is imminent and over 25 million people need urgent help

    • ‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years

    • 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

  • Palestinians, including a young child, hold out containers and look in despair as they line up in hopes of receiving food

    UN suspends Rafah aid distribution and warns US pier may fail

    Israel must provide conditions for pier to operate safely, UN warns, as aid deliveries reduced to trickle

April 2024

  • Crowds of people including children push against a metal fence and hold out bowls and pans for food

    ‘Smokescreen’: officials voice concern over US plans for Gaza aid pier

  • Palestinians walk with their belongings along a dusty road between destroyed buildings

    Israel still has no proof of Unrwa terrorist claims – but damage to aid agency is done

  • People inspect the wreckage of a partially collapsed building due to Israeli bombardment in Gaza on 18 April 2024

    The Guardian view on the catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis

  • Palestinian children in Khan Younis queue for hot food.

    ‘It’s death there’: babies and children hit hardest as famine tightens hold on Gaza

  • ‘Hell on Earth’: famine nears in northern Gaza despite Israeli aid pledges

  • Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on the spectre of famine haunting Gaza – cartoon

March 2024

  • A nine-year-old Palestinian boy experiencing malnutrition at a field hospital in Rafah.

    Famine is now probably present in Gaza, US says

  • 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

  • Jordanian army personnel carrying out an airdrop over northern Gaza on 15 March.

    ‘Man-made starvation’: the obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries – visual guide

  • A dirty child sits barefoot and peels off a wrapper from a disposable food container.

    We are about to witness in Gaza the most intense famine since the second world war

    Alex de Waal

  • World Bank report finds imminent risk of catastrophic famine in Gaza Strip

  • ‘Man-made famine’ charge against Israel is backed by mounting body of evidence

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

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