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Gaza’s hunger games

ISRAEL’S weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of General Efraín Ríos Montt, the famine in southern Sudan that left a quarter of a million dead — I walked past the frail and skeletal corpses of families lining roadsides — and later...

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Shot to death before dying of hunger

SAMI, Khatem, Halima, Mousa, Abdel, Maha, Laila, Hatem, Hana all and others aged 7–14, with rustled hair and in soiled, torn dresses stood in a serpentine queue with contorted faces and deformed tin plates and bowls of different sizes and colours dangling loosely from their stretched out, long waiting skinny hands due to lack of sufficient grips. Their eyeballs...

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Meanwhile, 100s of millions die of hunger

I HAVE written this article before. In fact, I could write it every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report rests on four points: (1) The number of people who are hungry is greater now than last year; (2) the amount of food produced this year is greater than that produced last year; (3) yhere is enough food to feed the total world population...

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NU students begin hunger strike

A group of students started an indefinite period fast-unto-death strike at National University demanding immediate issuance of an admission circular for on-campus honours courses...

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Global acute hunger hits new high, 2025 outlook bleak: report

More than 295 million people faced acute hunger last year, a new high driven by conflict along with other crises — and the outlook is ‘bleak’ for 2025 as humanitarian aid falters, a UN-backed report said Friday.

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Technical, BM teachers issue demands, threaten hunger strike

Teachers from technical, agricultural diploma and BM, vocational, institutions across the country on Sunday announced a 15-point demand to the Directorate of Technical Education and warned of a hunger strike if their demands are not met...

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Call to action on food security

THE Global Hunger Index 2024, published by Welthungerhilfe, Germany based non-profit and non-governmental aid agency, provides an important snapshot of the global state of hunger and malnutrition. This year’s findings reflect both progress and stagnation. While some nations inch closer to the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030, others...

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DU female students protest, seek accommodation

A group of female students of Dhaka University staged a sit-in and a symbolic hunger strike in front of the vice-chancellor’s residence on Monday morning, demanding accommodation facilities...

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ULAB students withdraw hunger strike

Students of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh on Thursday night withdrew their hunger strike after the university authorities agreed to take measures regarding their demands.

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Students begin hunger strike for justice

A group of students went on hunger strike on Thursday demanding immediate arrest of identified attackers during the student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India.

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Food security for all should be policy priority

Bangladesh having slipped three notches in the Global Hunger Index 2024, based on 2019–2023 data, shows that the development model pursued and trumpeted by the toppled Awami League government ignored people’s most basic necessities. The index, prepared by two European non-governmental organisations and made public on October 11, has...

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War and famine

MANY war stories end with hunger wreaking havoc on significant portions of a population. In Christian theology, the Biblical ‘four horses of the apocalypse,’ believed by...