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Famine

News, comment and features on famine

October 2022

  • A woman standing in a field of withered maize crops

    Climate crisis funds not reaching countries in need, senior UN official says

  • Parched field with partially seen man releasing a handful of dust

    Concern about climate change shrinks globally as threat grows, survey shows

  • People sit next to tents in a displacement camp for people impacted by drought on 3 September 3 2022 in Baidoa, Somalia.

    Dispatches from Somalia: farmers and families describe struggle as drought deepens

  • A girl picks food from a bowl in Dollow, Somalia

    ‘Overlapping shocks’ are undoing efforts to end hunger in Africa, UN warns

  • UK’s lost leadership role hurts Somalia’s fight against famine, says drought envoy

  • We are at a crossroads in history: Africa can and must be a leader in clean energy

    William Ruto

September 2022

  • Somalia<br>A camp for newly arrived people tarveeling in search of food, water and healthcare on the oputskirts of Baidoa. The City of Baidoa in the Bay Area of Somalia: Baidoa is the largest city in Bay, which is region that is being hardest hit by the hunger crisis. 87% of under-fives are expected to be malnourished this year. It’s home to more than 20% of all young children facing severe malnutrition and almost half (45%) of people facing catastrophic, famine-like conditions across the country.

    Act now to save Somalia from deadly famine

    Letters: Experts forecast that starvation will spread in Somalia between October and December, writes Helene Sinnreich
  • Boy George 30 december 1984

    From the Observer archive
    1984: was the year quite as awful as George Orwell predicted?

    Big Brother wasn’t watching you, but there was the IRA Brighton bombing, famine in Africa and the miners’ strike to think about

    • ‘There’s a path towards death that people travel’: how hunger destroys lives and communities

    • Extreme hunger soaring in world’s climate hotspots, says Oxfam

    • Drought likely to push parts of Somalia into famine by end of year, warns UN

August 2022

  • Somalis walking with their children arrive at a makeshift camp outside Mogadishu

    Horn of Africa drought places 22 million people at risk of starvation, says UN

    Four years of failed rains in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have left the region facing catastrophe this year

July 2022

  • People fleeing drought-hit areas arrive at a makeshift camp for displaced people in Mogadishu, Somalia.

    Britain must show compassion and leadership over the global food crisis

  • A convoy of trucks, part of the World Food Programme, on their way to Tigray are seen in the village of Erebti, Ethiopia, on 9 June 2022

    The Guardian view on the global food crisis: no time to lose

  • Mothers wait with their children at a clinic in Somalia.

    Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond?

  • A man pushes a wheelbarrow with two small children and belongings as a woman carrying a large bundle and older boy walk alongside

    Global hunger toll soars by 150 million as Covid and Ukraine war make their mark

June 2022

  • A wheat farmer in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, 21 June 2022.

    We can’t stop the war in Ukraine but we can prevent it causing world hunger

    Bob Geldof
  • Gabriela Bucher, Executive Director of Oxfam International

    Covering Climate Now
    Windfall tax on Covid profits could ease ‘catastrophic’ food crisis, says Oxfam

  • US satellite imagery shows damage inflicted by Russian forces on three of the facility’s grain silos, a conveyor, and a storage building.

    Russian navy ordered to lay mines at Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, says US

  • Liz Truss at a press conference with the Turkish foreign minister in Ankara.

    UK offers expertise in escort of Ukraine grain to avert starvation in Africa

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