Aid cuts to Afghanistan are hitting the most vulnerable hard. Malika, 25, has already lost a child because there was not enough food. Now her three-year-old daughter is being treated for malnutrition. “I worry that she might die,” says Malika from a children’s hospital in Kabul.
WorldFewer and fewer people in the West Bank are receiving food aid.
WorldMillions of people in conflict-torn Congo-Kinshasa are threatened with famine after foreign aid has decreased, the UN says.
WorldThat the ceasefire in Gaza is holding is very important to be able to deliver life-saving aid to the area, emphasizes the UN.
ConflictsIt will take time to turn the famine in Gaza, according to the UN's food program, WFP. Now the organization demands that all border crossings to the war-torn territory should be opened.
ConflictsThe UN chief directs sharp criticism towards the blocking of emergency aid to Gaza. A hundred trucks are reported to have been let in, but several of the trucks were plundered. Still, 9,000 trucks are waiting at the border, according to the UN.
ConflictsThe aid organization World Central Kitchen) WCK is closing its soup kitchens in Gaza. The reason is that there is hardly any food left to cook as a consequence of Israel's blockade of humanitarian aid.
ConflictsAfter two months of total Israeli blockade, food is now completely gone for more and more people in the Gaza Strip. If we were to admit all those with acute malnutrition, we would need hundreds of places, says doctor Yassir Abu Ghaly. Fishermen hardly dare to go out in their boats anymore, and are now reported to catch turtles on the beach to eat.
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