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World
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Africa
9/26/2023 2:45:48 PM
Researchers say they have verified 1,329 deaths from hunger in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region since a cease-fire ended a two-year conflict there in November.
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World
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Region
9/13/2023 12:03:00 PM
Prisoners in Bahrain have "ended" a mass hunger strike over jail conditions, a government source told AFP, after activists warned the action could resume.
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World
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Region
8/29/2023 1:28:16 PM
Bahraini authorities have agreed to offer prisoners extra rights, including more visiting hours, following a hundreds-strong hunger strike that activists say is the largest in the country's history.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
8/25/2023 12:33:30 PM
War and hunger threaten to "consume" Sudan where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of dying, as fighting between rival generals rages on, the United Nations warned Friday.
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World
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Region
8/18/2023 6:37:02 PM
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are gearing up for an open-ended hunger strike against the aggressive tactics practised by Israeli guards and authorities.
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World
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Region
8/14/2023 7:13:14 PM
Libya’s judicial authorities have formally asked Lebanon to release one of the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s sons, held without charges in Lebanon since 2015 because of his deteriorating health, officials said Monday.
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World
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Region
7/29/2023 11:05:07 AM
The United Nations has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels, a top official said late Friday.
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World
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International
7/24/2023 5:36:24 PM
A three-day United Nations summit opened in Rome on Monday aimed at tackling a "broken" global food system where millions are starving, billions are obese and the planet is suffering.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/18/2023 11:44:14 AM
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Monday that millions of people facing hunger will "pay the price" of Russia's decision to exit the Ukraine grain deal.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/12/2023 5:46:44 PM
Concerns are growing that Russia will not extend a United Nations-brokered deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to parts of the world struggling with hunger, with ships no longer heading to the war-torn country's Black Sea ports and food exports dwindling.
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World
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Africa
7/5/2023 6:59:54 PM
The number of people diagnosed with severe malnutrition in Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray region has increased sharply, with conditions set to worsen following a recent halt to food aid, the United Nations said in its latest update.
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World
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International
7/3/2023 12:28:10 PM
Climate change threatens to deliver a "truly terrifying" dystopian future of hunger and suffering, the United Nations' human rights chief warned Monday.
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World
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Africa
6/28/2023 5:19:38 PM
The United Nations said Wednesday it was "ringing the alarm" on the humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked northeast Nigeria, with surging numbers of people needing help.
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World
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Africa
6/23/2023 2:42:02 PM
Her nephew shared the harrowing tale of how she died.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/22/2023 2:47:47 PM
In war-torn Sudan, a Blue Nile river town has become a relative sanctuary from the fighting, but survivors living there endure overcrowding, widespread disease and creeping hunger.
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World
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Africa
6/20/2023 6:51:43 PM
The United Nations sounded the alarm Tuesday over the worsening hunger situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, saying time, money and resources to help were all running short.
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World
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Region
6/15/2023 6:16:01 PM
In an interview with Ahram Hebdo, Abdul-Hakim Elwaer, Assistant Director General UN FAO Near East and North Africa, says hunger and malnutrition are pressing issues in Arab countries, stressing net-food importing countries, such as Egypt, should increase sustainable agricultural production to reduce heavy reliance on imports.
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World
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Region
6/3/2023 7:14:06 PM
A son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years, began a hunger strike Saturday to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/27/2023 9:36:00 AM
There may be nothing more indicative of the bias and lack of objectivity in US mainstream media than the case of Khader Adnan, the Palestinian political activist and political detainee who died in the Ramla maximum security prison after an 87-day hunger strike in protest of his detention without trial.
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World
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Africa
5/24/2023 6:39:56 PM
The World Food Program (WFP) on Wednesday appealed for 810 million US dollars over the next six months to scale up humanitarian assistance for millions of people in the Horn of Africa who are trapped in a hunger emergency.
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