Middle East

Hunger Notes’ New Fact Sheet about Famine

by January 14, 2025

WHES researched this new fact sheet about famine:  https://www.worldhunger.org/famine-fact-sheet-dec-2024/...

Film Mischaracterizes Humanitarian Aid Work

by January 14, 2025

[Editor's note:  The following opinion piece was written by career aid worker Amy Leah Potter in response to the recent release of the film "Dirty Angels" which has upset many people in the aid community for its depiction of humanitarian NGOs serving as shells to hide army combatants.  The mov...

WHES Undertakes Research about Attacks Against Food & Nutrition in Humanitarian Aid

by December 12, 2024

This month, toward the end of 2024, World Hunger Education Service  launched a broad  study about the patterns, trends and extent of violent attacks and threats against aid programs delivering food and nutrition solutions in famines, crises, war zones, and for displaced populations.  The results ...

BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World

by steve hansch February 6, 2024

BOOK REVIEW:  The Enduring Struggle:  The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World, by John Norris.   2021.   Lanham MD:  Rowman & Littlefield Publisher. America's primary international assista...

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Locusts Add to World Hunger in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and South Asia 2021

by November 15, 2021

Original Contribution by Sharmin Sultana Seeing a locust, one cannot imagine that a harmless member of the grasshopper family can become one of the world’s most devastating pests.  Yet, in 2020, within just a few months locust swarms destroyed more than 1.2 million hectares (ha) of cr...

UN Sanctions Report Accuses Yemeni Government and Houthi Opposition of Corruption.

by TRT News www.trtnews.com February 14, 2021

In January 2021, an UN Independent Sanctions Monitor Report accuses the Government of Yemen of laundering money in 2018 meant for food commodities, and the Houthi-controlled areas of diverting money meant for basic services in 2019 toward their war effort. ...

Beirut port blast accelerates separate crisis: Hunger

by Amy Lieberman Devex August 24, 2020

The explosion in Beirut in early August has amplified another, relatively new crisis in Lebanon: rapidly rising rates of food insecurity...

Parents in Lebanon Barter on Facebook through Food Crisis

by Katell Ane Food Tank August 8, 2020

The recent massive explosions in Beirut are blocking vital food imports and placing further strain on Lebanon’s struggling economy, according to aid organization Mercy Corps in Beirut....

KT For Good: This Ramadan, let’s work towards food waste reduction

by Dhanusha Gokulan The Khaleej Times May 5, 2019

The Khaleej Times is proposing that those observing Ramadan be mindful of food waste during the season. Annual food waste is estimated at 427kg per person in Saudi Arabia and 197kg per person in the UAE, compared with 95kg to 115kg in Europe and North America, according to a research report release...

Yemen Food Security Outlook February to September 2019

by Famine Early Warning System Network Relief Web March 25, 2019

Continued conflict expected to prolong Famine risk in Yemen in 2019...

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