Food Aid
To Slow World Hunger, It Will Take More Than Ukrainian Grain Exports
NAIROBI, Kenya — In Afghanistan, starving children stream into hospitals. In the Horn of Africa, villagers trek for days across dust-blown wastelands to escape drought-induced famine. In cities from Syria to Central America, families go to bed hungry. On Monday, a ship carrying grain that left the Ukrainian port of Odesa, the first since Russia […]
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Biden Invokes Defense Powers in a Bid to Ease Formula Shortage
Several members of Congress, particularly Democrats facing difficult re-election races, have clamored in recent days for Mr. Biden to invoke the law to ease the formula shortage. It was not clear how quickly the impact would be felt. A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity and without authorization to comment on the […]
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War in Ukraine Compounds Hunger in East Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya — First came the drought, drying up rivers, and claiming the lives of two of Ruqiya Hussein Ahmed’s children as her family fled the barren countryside in southwest Somalia. Then came the war in Ukraine, pushing food prices so high that even after making it to the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu, she […]
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