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**Note: The original video that I posted here was pulled - and labeled as private. Here's a new video.

How Putin is weaponizing hunger | The Breadbasket Under Siege​

Aug 2, 2024
Russia's Weaponization of Food: Global Impacts and Urgent Solutions 🌾

In this eye-opening video, we delve into Russia's strategic weaponization of food amid the conflict, targeting Ukraine's vital agricultural sector and blockading its ports. Discover the far-reaching global consequences on food security, particularly in developing countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia that heavily rely on Ukrainian grain. We examine the catastrophic food emergencies in nations like Lebanon, Yemen, and Somalia, and the urgent need for international intervention to address this manufactured crisis. Learn about Egypt's struggle with soaring wheat prices and its social stability dilemma, emphasizing the critical need for diversifying food sources and strengthening local production.


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Eating Leaves, Knee-Deep in Water: Inside Sudan’s Man-Made Famine​

Every day, emaciated children are dying from lack of food, clean water and medicine. Aid groups are rationing malnutrition treatments. Desperate mothers are feeding their children with leaves, while others are sheltering in knee-deep water as floods worsen.

These are the dystopian conditions inside the Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s Darfur region, home to more than 500,000 people and now the site of the world’s first confirmed famine since 2017.

Two international panels monitoring hunger around the world made the official declaration that famine had taken hold in Zamzam last week, nearly 16 months after war broke out between Sudan’s military and its former ally, the paramilitary-turned-rebel Rapid Support Forces.

Zamzam and other displacement camps around the Darfur city of El Fasher—set up after the genocide of the early 2000s—are ground zero of a starvation crisis that has swept through Sudan since the start of the war last year. Some 26 million Sudanese, about half the country’s population, are suffering crisis levels of hunger, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, which brings together experts from the United Nations, relief agencies and research groups.

Aid groups and the U.S. government say the crisis is entirely man-made.

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Nie możemy odwracać wzroku, musimy działać! It's heartbreaking that in the 21st century wars are still causing famines. Rulers are using food as a weapon, and civilians are paying the ultimate price. We must pressure governments to provide humanitarian aid and protect civilians. Only united can we put an end to these tragedies. We can't look away, we must act:mad:!
 

Exclusive: WFP launches probe into its Sudan operations as famine spreads​

  • Inspector general examining two top WFP officials in Sudan -sources
  • Investigators looking at whether staff hid alleged role of Sudan’s army in blocking food aid
  • Probe also investigating disappearance of fuel supplies in Sudan
  • WFP, USAID confirm investigation of Sudan operation is under way
  • Famine watchdog IPC says 25 million facing food crisis in Sudan
NAIROBI/CAIRO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians amid the nation’s dire hunger crisis, according to 11 people with knowledge of the probe.

The investigation by the WFP’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) comes as the U.N.’s food-aid arm is struggling to feed millions of people in war-plagued Sudan, now suffering one of the world’s most severe food shortages in years.

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Namibia plans to kill more than 700 animals including elephants and hippos — and distribute the meat​

Wed August 28, 2024

Namibia is planning to kill more than 700 wild animals, including elephants, zebras and hippos, and distribute the meat to the people struggling with food insecurity as the country grapples with its worst drought in 100 years.

The animals set to be culled include 83 elephants, 30 hippos, 60 buffalo, 50 impala, 100 blue wildebeest and 300 zebras, the country’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism announced Monday.

They will come from national parks and communal areas with “sustainable game numbers” and will be killed by professional hunters, the ministry said in a press release.

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USDA chief admits ‘mistakes’ as food shortages hit tribal populations, low-income seniors​

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack acknowledged his department made "mistakes" in awarding a contract to a single distributor to supply critical food aid programs, a change that has triggered food shortages among low-income populations in at least eight states.

Since the contract with distributor Paris Brothers Inc. began in April, tribes have reported delayed and missed deliveries as part of the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations. The same issue has plagued the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which serves low-income seniors and food banks. That's left some of those program partners without key food staples, and many are now warning the shortages could get much worse in the next few months.

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