Lebanon rations wheat imported from Ukraine as war raises food insecurity fears
Flour mills deliver supplies only to bread bakeries amid grain import concerns
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
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
‘Now I have nothing’: economic collapse pushes Afghanistan to brink of famine
International community faces engaging with Taliban or watching civilians starve in famine
World Food Programme issues Afghanistan alert
Organisation’s Donegal-born chief tells UN briefing of restive country’s ‘hour of need’
Madagascar on the brink of famine due to climate crisis, say aid workers
As many as 1.1m people are facing starvation in the south of the island nation
Mass funerals held in Myanmar as coup death toll revised up to 149
Hundreds of mourners gather in different townships to say goodbye to those killed
UN’s World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize for efforts in fighting hunger
Award seen as endorsement of multilateralist approach questioned by leaders such as Donald Trump
Syria’s dire food shortages leave millions ‘on brink of starvation’
Some 9.3m Syrians are now food insecure, an increase of 1.4m in past six months
More than 50,000 applications have been made for new pandemic payment
Fear growing among poorest working families they will be hardest hit
Zimbabwe’s deepening food crisis leaves millions seeking aid
Country suffering worst food shortage in living memory despite government efforts
Zimbabwe struggling to feed itself as natural disasters wreak havoc
The one-time ‘bread basket of Africa’ faces a severe crisis in wake of cyclone and drought
Hurricane Dorian: Death toll likely to rise in Bahamas
Storm levelled neighbourhoods and destroyed airport landing strips and hospital
Rains torment cyclone-hit communities in Mozambique
Aid flights blocked for third day after country hammered by second cyclone in six weeks
Syrians come back to Deraa, but normality is slow to return
The city where Syria’s 2011 Arab Spring uprising began is battered but still functioning
Battle for key Yemeni port intensifies as world worries about Idlib
Yemen conflict, dubbed the ‘forgotten war’, is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe
Rohingya turn to blockchain to solve identity crisis
Technology behind Bitcoin provides secure method of storing vital personal information
France presses Russia over Syria as more die in besieged rebel area
More than 300 reported killed in Eastern Ghouta in four days as Assad targets rebel pockets
Budget 2018: All weekly social welfare payments to go up by €5
Elderly to see slight improvements in their situation, beyond the pension increase
Rohingya flee Myanmar as thousands of homes burned down
Almost 60,000 head for Bangladesh while UK calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to intervene
Ethiopian camps swell with internal migrants as most aid goes elsewhere
‘Refugees get global attention. People displaced by other factors don’t’
Somalia: UN calls for urgent action to avert famine
Feared repeat of 2011 catastrophe in which 260,000 starved due to slow donor response
More than one million children starve as Yemen war rages
UN issues warning after photographs emerge of starving girl (18) in Yemeni hospital
Iraq stalls Falluja assault ‘to protect civilians’
Isis puts up ferocious resistance as UN warns of ‘human catastrophe’ unfolding
Irish-owned ship held by Arab coalition forces in Saudi Arabia
Cork ship carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen for World Food Programme
Remote camp awaits Syrian refugees who may not come
Restricted arrivals at refuge as fear of IS means mounting difficulty crossing border
UN urges rich nations to take more refugees from Syria
Refugee agency wants to resettle 130,000 Syrians outside Middle East by end of 2016
UN suspends food aid to 1.7m Syrian refugees
Without vouchers many families will go hungry, World Food Programme says
Zimbabwe facing food crisis, UN warns
Estimated 2.2 million people in rural areas will need assistance next year
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