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Gaza: New displacement orders force thousands to flee as famine looms

·May 16, 2025·2 min read

In addition to ongoing bombardment, Israel issued another three displacement orders over the past two days, covering seven per cent of the total area of the territory.  Overall, some 71 per cent of the Gaza Strip is under displacement orders or in Israeli-militarized zones, where the Israeli authorities require humanitarian...

Gaza: Starvation looms for one in five people, say food security experts

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·May 12, 2025·3 min read

“Goods indispensable for people’s survival are either depleted or expected to run out in the coming weeks…The entire population is facing high levels of acute food insecurity,” said the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) platform. In its latest update, the IPC estimated that one in five people in Gaza – 500,000...

Middle East: Gaza food markets ‘in decay’ as starvation looms

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·November 13, 2024·3 min read

In an alert, the World Food Programme (WFP) described markets “in decay” across the enclave. “Fresh foods, eggs, and meat barely exist and the prices of any food available have reached record highs,” the UN agency said on X, just days since UN-backed hunger experts warned that famine thresholds may...

Middle East crisis: Live updates from Gaza, Lebanon and the Security Council as famine looms

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·November 12, 2024·1 min read

Amid the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, the World Health Organization (WHO) continues efforts to keep hospitals up and running and to evacuate patients requiring specialized treatment, a senior official with the UN agency said in Cairo on Monday. ...

New temperature records, food security threats likely as El Niño looms

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·May 4, 2023·2 min read

El Niño and La Niña are natural phenomena which WMO describes as “major drivers of the Earth’s climate system”. After a three-year La Niña spell, which is associated with ocean cooling, the world faces an 80 per cent chance of an El Niño event developing between July and September. Tell-tale...

Lost decade looms for debt-ridden developing countries: UNCTAD

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·April 12, 2023·4 min read

In a new report, UNCTAD projects that annual growth across large parts of the global economy will be below pre-pandemic levels in 2023. High interest rates combined with soaring debt levels will add to the “crushing” effect on developing countries over the coming years, to the tune of at least...