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EU urges G20 to help persuade Putin to reopen Ukraine grain export route

Brussels’ foreign policy chief calls on nations to speak with a unified voice to help ‘people most in need’

The Guardian - UK

Putin is using food as a weapon – but his cynical attempts to drum up forced allies will fail

By reneging on the Black Sea grain deal, Russia has driven up food prices around the world, says Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy

The Guardian - UK

Halted Ukraine grain deal, funding shortages rattle UN food aid programs

A halted landmark grain deal that allowed Ukrainian grain to flow to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia is rattling the operations of the United Nations food agency, its deputy executive director said

The Independent UK

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UN says it's forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis

The United Nations says it has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels

The Independent UK

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 521

These are the main developments as the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its 521st day.

Al Jazeera

Concern mounts in East Africa over halted Black Sea grain deal

Analysts say East Africa could experience food shortages due to complications from Russia exiting the grain initiative.

Al Jazeera

In a refugee camp in Kenya, food shortages left kids hungry even before Russia ended grain deal

One of the world's largest refugee camps offers a stark example of the global food security crisis

The Independent UK

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UN agency slashes cash aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan, raising the alarm on its funding crunch

The United Nations food agency says it will reduce monthly cash aid for almost 120,000 Syrian refugees living in camps in Jordan

The Independent UK

UN unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month amid ‘catastrophic’ conditions

The World Food Programme’s Haiti response is only 16% funded with more than half of the country’s population regularly hungry

The Guardian - US

As Russia exits grain deal, which countries will be affected?

Almost 33 million metric tonnes of grain were exported since the Black Sea Grain Initiative was brokered a year ago.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine Black Sea grain deal: All you need to know

Russia has declined to extend the Black Sea grain deal, stalling the export of Ukrainian grain to the rest of the world.

Al Jazeera

Black Sea grain deal in peril as UN, Turkey await Russia response

UN, Turkish officials awaiting Russian response as last cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain leaves Odesa.

Al Jazeera

Charity appeals for people of Lanarkshire to back its appeal to help tackle Ethiopian drought

The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund is taking action as many millions of people in the East African country are on the brink of starvation and 90 per cent of the cattle are dead.

Daily Record

UN: Millions left with no aid as West Africa suffers worst hunger crisis in 10 years

The United Nations food agency says millions of hungry people in West Africa are left without aid because it is struggling with limited funding to respond to the region's worst hunger crisis in 10 years

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The Guardian - UK

‘We blame government and aid agencies’: food relief thefts in Ethiopia leave those in need with nothing

The Independent UK

Once starved by war, millions of Ethiopians go hungry again as US, UN pause aid after massive theft

Millions of Ethiopians were starved by a two-year war

Bangkok Post

Rohingya refugees face soaring hunger and crime after aid cuts

LONDON: Every day 5-year-old Jannat hunts for bottles and cans in the Rohingya refugee camp where she lives in Bangladesh – when she collects enough, she buys a snack to stave off her hunger pangs.

The Independent UK

How a canal is bringing water, fish and hope to farmers in Cambodia

A project funded by Japan and facilitated by the World Food Programme is changing lives in a community hit by erratic weather linked to climate extremes

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Dublin Live

Social welfare Ireland: Four handy once-off payments you can apply for and receive in June

It's likely to be a very busy month for families as schools finish up for the summer soon

Irish Mirror

Four once-off social welfare payments to be paid or apply for in June

Several social welfare payments are paid out this month

Al Jazeera

UN food agency says will slash Syria aid by about half

World Food Programme funding crisis means aid will be cut to 2.5 million of 5.5 million people reliant on agency.

The Guardian - UK

Food aid suspended in Ethiopia after ‘widespread and coordinated’ thievery

UN and US halt food assistance in the country, where 20 million people rely on aid, in order to investigate ‘diversion’ of supplies

France 24

UN joins US in suspending food aid to Ethiopia over diversion of supplies

The United Nations World Food Program said Friday that it is temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia because its supplies are being diverted, an announcement that came a day after the United States Agency for International Development said it was doing the same.

The Guardian - UK

Even prisons serve regular meals – yet in our camp, Rohingyas go hungry

Prevented by Bangladeshi authorities from working, refugees in the Cox’s Bazar camp are dependent on food aid, which is being cut again and again. We cannot carry on like this, says the founder of Rohingya Women Development Forum

Dynamite News

Pakistan, Afghanistan among global food shortage 'hotspots': Report

Two United Nations bodies Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have foreseen acute food insecurity in Pakistan that is likely to further exacerbate in the coming months, if the economic and political crisis further worsens. Read further on Dynamite News:

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