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    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      OutlookJude Webber
      Lessons from Irish history on the consequences of ignoring the famine in Somalia

      Bob Geldof’s recent speech highlights the parallels between the ‘Forgotten Ones’ then and now

    • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
      Gareth Owen
      We know how to deal with famines but we are failing in Somalia

      The lives of 400,000 malnourished children hang in the balance while funding stalls

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Climate change
      War and climate shocks put 49mn people at risk of famine this year

      Food insecurity to worsen in 46 countries as ‘hunger hotspots’ exacerbated by conflict and extreme weather

    • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
      Africa
      Horn of Africa ravaged by worst drought in four decades

      Up to 20mn people could go hungry as delayed rains exacerbate fallout from war in Ukraine

    • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Putin’s war threatens millions with hunger

      The poorest must be protected against the impact of rising food costs

    • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Afghanistan’s unnecessary plight

      Taking a rigid stand against the Taliban leaves Afghans starving

    • Thursday, 23 December, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Spare a thought for Afghanistan this Christmas

      A humanitarian carve-out to UN sanctions is a welcome but belated step

    • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Ethiopia is a tragedy for the whole of Africa

      War in Tigray unleashed old hatreds and brought low a growth model

    • Friday, 17 December, 2021
      News in-depthAfghanistan
      ‘Now I have nothing’: economic collapse pushes Afghanistan to brink of famine

      Nato powers face re-engaging with Taliban and unfreezing the financial system or watching millions starve

    • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Afghanistan’s slide towards famine must be halted

      Extending emergency aid does not imply legitimising the Taliban

    • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
      Afghanistan
      Afghans in remote areas must receive food aid within weeks, agencies warn

      Fears of humanitarian crisis as economic conditions worsen and winter sets in

    • Friday, 29 October, 2021
      North Korea
      Hungry North Koreans told to eat ‘delicious’ black swans

      UN warns that food crisis is worsening with children and the elderly most at risk

    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      News in-depthFood security
      Ethiopian famine fears: ‘There’s no food in Tigray’

      One of Africa’s fastest-growing economies plunged into crisis as conflict persists

    • Friday, 26 June, 2020
      Yemen
      Yemen crisis deepens as coronavirus devastates health system

      UN warns millions of children at risk of starvation due to shortfalls in humanitarian funding

    • Monday, 13 May, 2019
      News in-depthUS-China trade dispute
      US farmers fret over China trade threat to aid deal

      Plan to buy surplus crops leaves soya farmers in uncharted territory

    • Tuesday, 13 November, 2018
      Yemen
      Yemen urged to end ‘economic war’ on its people

      Weak currency and withheld wages exacerbate impact of Saudi-led coalition’s bombing

    • Friday, 14 September, 2018
      Drugs research
      FT Health: Cancer and quackery

      Fighting high drug prices, ‘legal highs’ and psychedelic science

    • Friday, 16 February, 2018
      FT AlphavilleMatthew C Klein
      Marcus Noland explains the North Korean economy
    • Friday, 2 February, 2018
      FT Health: New year, same old problems

      Modicare, the hungry US tapeworm, record Unicef appeal

    • Sunday, 26 November, 2017
      The FT View
      Yemen’s looming famine is on 20th-century scale

      Saudi allies risk complicity in the use of starvation as a weapon of war

    • Sunday, 30 April, 2017
      Thousands at risk of starvation in Nigeria, aid agencies warn

      As food stocks dwindle, people at risk of famine in north of country climbs to 1.5m

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2017
      Nigeria’s president orders probe into missing aid funds

      Top civil servant suspended over humanitarian crisis contracts

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2017
      Life & Arts
      What one meal a day looks like in the far north of Cameroon

      Chris de Bode’s photographs bear witness to a land blighted by drought

    • Friday, 7 April, 2017
      FT Health: The burden of depression

      Mental health, Stephen O’Brien, movie villains

    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2017
      Edward Luce
      The famine abroad that Donald Trump fails to notice

      America has a strategic interest in ending starvation in Yemen and Africa

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