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The world's leading authority on hunger crises says famine has spread to two regions of war-torn Sudan. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says famine is happening in el-Fasher, a major city in the Darfur region, and in Kadugli, a town in the South Kordofan province. Paramilitary forces rampaged through the besieged el-Fasher last week, reportedly killing hundreds of people. Sudan has been torn apart since April 2023 by a power struggle between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The United Nations says more than 40,000 people have been killed, but aid groups believe the true number could be much higher.
A Seattle-area nonprofit group called Community Loaves donates home-baked bread and cookies to food banks in four states. The effort started during the COVID-19 pandemic and has grown to include nearly 900 bakers. Since 2020, Community Loaves has donated more than 200,000 loaves of fresh bread and some 220,000 energy cookies to food pantries. Health departments in those states allow bread to be donated from home kitchens. Amid cuts in federal funding for food aid to the poor and rising grocery prices, demand for the group's nutritious baked goods is greater than ever.
U.N. officials, aid groups and experts have warned for months that Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine without formally declaring one. Even though Israel eased a 2 1/2-month blockade on the territory in May, aid groups say only a trickle of assistance is getting into the enclave. Palestinians face catastrophic levels of hunger 21 months into Israel's offensive, which was launched after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack. The leading international authority on hunger crises has warned of famine, but has not yet obtained data that would meet its conditions for declaring one.
More than 300,000 refugees in the Kakuma camp in remote Kenya have had their food rations cut in half. And now the monthly cash transfers to buy proteins and vegetables to supplement them are gone. Funding for the U.N. World Food Program has dropped after the Trump administration paused support in March. It's part of the widespread dismantling of foreign aid by the United States, once the world's biggest donor. Some refugees are surviving on one meal a day. Some malnourished babies arrive too late at a local hospital and die within hours. Workers fear they will see more.
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A report by the U.N. children's agency says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's more than a quarter of the world's youngest children. Africa's population of more than 1.3 billion people is one of the most affected mainly due to conflict, climate crises and rising food prices. The report says the continent accounts for one-third of the global burden and 13 of the 20 most affected countries. But it says some progress has been recorded in Africa, too. In northern Nigeria, women are being trained in gardening and cooking with the local produce.
A new report by an independent group of experts says it's possible that famine is underway in northern Gaza, but that the war between Israel and Hamas and restrictions on humanitarian access have impeded data collection to prove it. The report by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network on Tuesday said that people, including children, are dying of hunger-related causes across the besieged territory. It urges Israel's government to act urgently to allow more aid in. A formal declaration of a famine could be used as evidence at the International Criminal Court and at the International Court of Justice, where Israel faces allegations of genocide.
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday decried as criminal the existence of hunger in a world which can produce enough food for all, building on a…
