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Warnings of famine grow in Ukrainian town of Oleshky

A man sends a photo of "Oleshky borsch," a vegetable soup he has made from leftovers. To make the soup more filling, he says he has added millet and two eggs. "Today, we have a delicacy in our borsch. My mother traded 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds) of sugar for 10 eggs," he tells the recipient of the photo, Tetiana Hasanenko, the head of the Oleshky City Military Administration, which is based in territory controlled by Kyiv. "There's no cabbage in it, but there is asparagus," he adds. Hasanenko says she's used to getting such messages. "I receive reports like this every day," Hasanenko told DW. "People want to be given some kind of hope, but there is no hope." She said food was last delivered to the town at the end of May. "The situation is critical," she said, warning that "you can't just call this starvation — it's a famine." Oleshky is located in Ukraine'ssouthern Kherson region on the left bank of the Dnipro River. The city has been occupied since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.Russia's full-scale invasionin February 2022. In June 2023, the town was almost completely flooded after a blast at the Kakhovka Power Plant and...

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Is Bill Gates Trying to “Own All African Seeds”? The GMO Debate, African Seed Banks, and the Battle for Food Sovereignty - Ajoke Brown Media

From GMO policies to patented seeds, Africa’s food future is at the center of a heated debate. Are biotech investments helping solve hunger and climate challenges, or threatening indigenous seed sover...

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Sudan's historical famine echoes through latest hunger crisis

Sudan’s collective memory has long carried stories of famine-induced tragedies. Now, as war pushes the country deeper into a catastrophic food crisis, historians and humanitarian activists fear that some of those horrors are being repeated. The ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which erupted in April 2023, has plunged the country into one of its worst modern food crises, with conditions deteriorating sharply since 2024. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3Erdogan slams Israel’s ‘genocidal mindset’ in blistering UN address list 2 of 3‘Deadly hazards’: Behind Sudan gold mine collapse, a wartime desperation list 3 of 3Undeterred by fines, Al-Shaair pays tribute to Palestinian girl Wafaa Akila end of list Sudan has endured severe famines before, often triggered or made worse by drought and other environmental shocks. However, the current hunger crisis, which has triggered famines in Sudan in 2024 and 2025, has been brought on by a man-made factor: war. Past starvation One of the earliest recorded major food crises in what is now Sudan occurred in 1684, during the Funj Sultanate. The crisis, which lasted several years, brought severe grain shortages across central Sudan. Historical accounts describe people driven...

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Editorial: The world must force Russia to end mass starvation in occupied Oleshky

Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia. The town of Oleshky and its surrounding district in t...