However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 due to the potato blight. The British government did try and help a little. In 1846, Prime Minister Robert Peel ordered £ ...

A pub in Kentish town is hoping to open later on Fridays and Saturdays. Star Pubs & Bars has applied for a variation to the premises licence of Sir Robert Peel, in Malden Road, including changes ...

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) - an initiative funded by USAID, the US government agency that oversees foreign aid - has taken down a report on its website that sounded the ...

The world’s leading experts on hunger, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee, found that famine has spread in Sudan. In August it had already identified ...

If Team Biden had called out the phony reports of famine and "genocide" from the start, and fully backed Israel's defensive war, the fighting might well have ended by now, writes the Post ...

The Sudanese government on Sunday rejected a UN report describing the food security situation in the war-torn country as a famine. Agriculture Minister Abubakar Omar El-Bushra expressed ...

By Ephrat Livni A U.S. diplomat on Tuesday slammed a new report on food security in the Gaza Strip that said famine was “highly likely” in part of the enclave, with the criticism fueling ...

Five times in the course of the past year, the world’s leading hunger monitor warned that Gaza could be teetering on the precipice of famine. Each time, the watchdog stopped short of concluding ...

Jack Lew, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said that a humanitarian group’s report on famine conditions in northern Gaza was “outdated and inaccurate” because its population figures were ...

The army-aligned government "categorically rejects the IPC's description of the situation in Sudan as a famine", the foreign ministry said in a statement. The statement called the report ...

A lead organization monitoring for food crises around the world withdrew a new report this week warning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel's "near-total blockade," after ...

A U.N.-backed hunger-monitoring group warns famine is spreading in Sudan, 20 months after fighting erupted between Sudan’s military rulers and the rival Rapid Support Forces. The Integrated Food ...