The Labour Leader yesterday (SUN) said the UK must “get real about where we’re going to build” to solve the housing crisis while pledging to review rules about building on the green belt. But Conservative MP Gareth Bacon said: “Keir Starmer’s comments
At least one in five children arriving in South Sudan from Sudan are malnourished and more than 90% of arrivals haven’t eaten in days, the U.N. food agency said Tuesday. The World Food Program said that nearly 300,000 people have arrived in
Almost a year has passed since conflict ended in the Tigray region of Ethiopia due to a cease-fire. According to a study conducted by local health authorities and a university, hunger has become the main cause of death in the Tigray region.
Hundreds of prisoners suspended their monthlong hunger strike in Bahrain, an advocacy group said Tuesday, just ahead of a visit of the island nation’s crown prince to the United States. The strike will pause until Sept. 30 as some prisoners suffered health
Ángeles Béjar, the mother of Spain’s soccer federation president Luis Rubiales, launched a hunger strike Monday in protest of the drama around her son after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso. Béjar locked herself inside the Divine Shepherdess – a church in Rubiales’
A prominent humanitarian organization revealed on Tuesday that approximately 500 children have succumbed to hunger in Sudan. These heartbreaking losses have occurred since the outbreak of intense conflict in the East African nation this past April, as reported by a leading aid
Indonesian domestic workers and activists began a hunger strike on Monday to protest against the parliament’s delay in passing a bill to protect domestic workers. Sunrise-to-sunset fasting protests were happening simultaneously in the capital, Jakarta, and other major cities and will be
Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was imprisoned last week on charges of calling for an insurrection, conspiracy against the state, and more. Sonko announced on X that he would start a hunger strike on July 30, 2023, to protest his imprisonment. He
Hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and the United Nations paused food aid, local officials and researchers say. The U.N. and the U.S. first suspended food aid to Tigray
The health of a son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Qaddafi was deteriorating three days into a hunger strike to protest his detention in Lebanon without trial, his lawyer said Tuesday. Hannibal Qaddafi was suffering from headaches, muscle pain and difficulties moving