World Food Programme

Lebanon rations wheat imported from Ukraine as war raises food insecurity fears

Flour mills deliver supplies only to bread bakeries amid grain import concerns

Every core element of the food supply chain is affected by the war in Ukraine

Putin has dropped a bomb on the European agricultural sector

Starvation ‘death sentence’ looms for eight million people in Yemen

Collapse in funding for relief agencies will result in no food rations, UN warned

Tigray: Almost 40% of region’s population facing extreme food shortages

Fighting in Ethiopia between federal forces and People’s Liberation Front has lasted 14 months

Tonga confirms three deaths and homes destroyed after volcanic eruption

Severe damage to small outer islands hit by tsunami waves in the Haapia island group

As famine stalks Afghanistan, West urged to rescue stricken economy

Millions at risk of famine as international sanctions against Taliban batter economy

Aid workers: ‘I have to believe in goodness and in doing good’

Irish overseas offer humanitarian help in face of hunger, death and devastation

Afghanistan’s looming famine: will the West help the Taliban?

Millions of Afghans unable to afford food as country faces ‘unprecedented’ economic collapse

Breda O’Brien: Being obscenely wealthy is not proof of genius

Oireachtas time is given to a lottery while our rotten system of inequality is ignored

‘Now I have nothing’: economic collapse pushes Afghanistan to brink of famine

International community faces engaging with Taliban or watching civilians starve in famine

Cabinet approves plan for €100 credit towards electricity bills

Plan to credit every domestic electricity account-holder will cost €210m in total

Each household to get €100 credit towards electricity bills

Cabinet set to approve €210m plan that will benefit all homes regardless of means

Afghans in remote areas must receive food aid within weeks, agencies warn

‘Catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis looming following Taliban’s return to power

Ethiopian authorities detain 72 UN drivers, amid reports of mass arrests

Ethnicity of contractor drivers for World Food Programme not clear

We all feel the burn of the hot air from billionaires

Whether it is Denis O’Brien or Jeff Bezos, we must parse billionaires’ statements to assess their credibility

Dead oceans, a Twitter pump-and-dump and trillion-dollar Tesla

Planet Business: Boat burning in Glasgow ahead of Cop26

UN agency warns children will die of starvation as Afghan economy nears collapse

Many Afghans are selling possessions to buy food, with the Taliban unable to pay wages to civil servants

Journalists who took on Putin and Duterte win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov cited for their fight for freedom of expression

Higgins reminds UN gathering of challenges and responsibilities

Renewed moral sensibility needed ‘that will give us policies ensuring needs of all can be met’

China urges end to sanctions on Afghanistan, highlighting split with West

World Bank and IMF should normalise lending to the country, foreign minister says

Farming inflicts great damage on planet, Christian Aid says

New report calls for ‘transformation to agroecology’ ahead of UN summit

‘You see fear in everyone’s eyes’: An Afghan rights defender on life under the Taliban

Western governments must ensure aid ‘reaches intended beneficiaries’, unlike previously

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