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More Than 1 Million in Lebanon Expected to Face Acute Food Insecurity, Hunger Monitor Says

More Than 1 Million in Lebanon Expected to Face Acute Food Insecurity, Hunger Monitor Says

Published by Sam Flores

By Nazih Osseiran and Haider Nour BEIRUT, April 29 (Reuters) – More than 1 million people in ⁠Lebanon ⁠are expected to face a food insecurity crisis ⁠in the months ahead as a result of renewed conflict and mass displacement, a global hunger monitor said ​on Wednesday.  A new analysis by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has found that 1.24 million will be unable to consistently meet basic food needs and will be ‌forced to reduce the quality and quantity of ‌foods consumed, or resort to harmful coping strategies to survive. “These results underscore the severity of the current situation in Lebanon, where conflict intersects with economic pressures putting ⁠national food security ⁠under critical risk and juncture,” said Nora Ourabah Haddad, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ​Nations’ representative in Lebanon. The nearly two-month war between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has displaced more than 1.2 million people in Lebanon, with many heads of households out of work and relying on donations to survive as the regional conflict drives up food prices.  …

Somalia hunger crisis worsens as drought displaces more than 500,000 people | Hunger News

Somalia hunger crisis worsens as drought displaces more than 500,000 people | Hunger News

Published by Sam Flores

Published On 27 Apr 202627 Apr 2026 Across Somalia, communities are suffering through a deepening hunger crisis, driven from their homes by drought and left waiting for critical humanitarian assistance that has not arrived. September’s failed Deyr rains mark the latest blow in a relentless climate crisis, destroying livelihoods, killing livestock, and forcing another year of harvest failure. More than 500,000 people have been displaced so far this year – more than 90 percent of them by drought – in addition to the 3.3 million Somalis already uprooted. Displaced families now face the highest risk of starvation, according to the UN OCHA’s Somalia Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026. Fatima, 40, has fled five times – three times because of conflict, twice because of drought. Each time she has left behind land, livestock, and the small possessions her family has managed to save. “This is the fifth time I have fled,” she says. “I am still facing the drought and I have nothing to feed my family.” Families have walked for days, eating wild plants …

What really controls our appetite – hunger, stress or habit? | Health & wellbeing

What really controls our appetite – hunger, stress or habit? | Health & wellbeing

Published by Sam Flores

Imagine you’re in a meeting room when someone brings out the biscuits – a packet of Jammie Dodgers, perhaps, or a nice little plate of custard creams. Maybe you want one and maybe you don’t, but the chances are the people around you are all responding differently: someone will grab a couple straight away, someone else will eat one without seeming to notice, another will barely be aware the biscuits exist, and someone will spend the whole meeting wanting one but not taking it. Our appetites and responses to food vary wildly – but what’s going on behind the scenes to govern them? And has modern food somehow hijacked the process? Grab a biscuit (or don’t) and settle in. “First, it’s important to distinguish between hunger and appetite,” says Giles Yeo, a professor of molecular neuroendocrinology at the University of Cambridge and the author of Why Calories Don’t Count. “Hunger is a feeling – it’s what happens in the run-up to you deciding you need to eat something. Appetite is everything that surrounds why we …

Josh Hutcherson says he tried to flag unrealistic detail about Peeta in The Hunger Games

Josh Hutcherson says he tried to flag unrealistic detail about Peeta in The Hunger Games

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Josh Hutcherson is addressing a plot point in The Hunger Games that has sparked confusion and memes from fans for over a decade. In a scene from the first movie of the hit franchise, Hutcherson — known for playing baker Peeta Mellark, the love interest to Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen in the series — hides from other contestants in the violent dystopian competition by painting himself to camouflage into a boulder. However, the makeup was more intricate in the 2012 movie adaptation than what fans expected from the source material by author Suzanne Collins, and the moment in the film where Peeta is revealed to be disguised with hyperrealistic makeup left fans confused for years about how the character was able to achieve such detailed handiwork in the arena without a mirror or art supplies. Hutcherson, 33, recently said he shared …

Hunger Games actor Ethan Jamieson arrested for alleged assault with intent to kill

Hunger Games actor Ethan Jamieson arrested for alleged assault with intent to kill

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Ethan Jamieson, an actor who appeared in The Hunger Games, has been arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina, on felony assault charges after allegedly firing a gun at a moving vehicle. Jamieson, 27, was arrested on 8 April and charged with three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, according to court documents obtained by People magazine. The incident took place on 22 March, when officers from the Raleigh Police Department responded to reports of gunfire at approximately 9.52pm local time. A spokesperson for the Raleigh Police Department told Entertainment Weekly that “upon arrival, officers located the victim, who reported that an unknown suspect riding an e-bike had fired a shot at their vehicle while they were driving”. “Two additional occupants were inside the vehicle at the time of the incident. During the course of the investigation, detectives …

Trump threatens Cuba as US sanctions fuel hunger

Trump threatens Cuba as US sanctions fuel hunger

Published by Sam Flores

In Cuba today, food is rotting in the fields while families go hungry. On a recent trip to the eastern part of the island, I spoke with farmers who are watching their livelihoods slip away — not because they lack skill or dedication, but because they lack fuel, parts and basic inputs. One farmer described fields ready to harvest but no diesel to bring the crops in. Others showed me broken machinery they have no way to repair. Even those who have turned to animal traction are having problems with feed. These are not isolated stories; they reflect a system under siege. The U.S. fuel embargo, together with tightened sanctions under Donald Trump‘s administration, is strangling Cuba’s agricultural system from seed to table — making it harder and harder for Cubans to feed themselves. Cuban farmers have already been operating under severe constraints imposed by U.S. sanctions — struggling to obtain spare parts to repair tractors, access fertilizers and pesticides or secure basic inputs like seeds. Machinery breaks down and sits idle for months because …

Hunger is rising — by Republican design

Hunger is rising — by Republican design

Published by Sam Flores

It would be easy to look at SNAP participation and conclude that hunger is falling in America. It isn’t. In July 2025, 42 million Americans were served by the program; by December, the number had dropped to 39.5 million. But in that six-month time span, it’s not that 3.3 million people had somehow “graduated” out of hunger — that they had shifted into a job that provided more security, connected with a community program that eased their grocery bills or caught a break on rent that opened up their budget. Instead, this decline reflects something else: deliberate policy choices that increase friction for participants and vendors. Need has not decreased. Access has. And it’s all by design. According to a new report by Gina Plata-Nino and Dory Thrasher, SNAP director and senior SNAP policy analyst for the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), policies that are meant to “reduce access to the program, increase administrative burden, and shift responsibility… onto families themselves” are being advanced by the Trump administration and a majority of Republicans in …

UK Foreign Aid Cuts Threaten Child Hunger Warns Labour Peer

UK Foreign Aid Cuts Threaten Child Hunger Warns Labour Peer

Published by Sam Flores

The foreign secretary’s statement on UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocations has been a year in the making. I have been dreading this day since the decision last year by the prime minister and chancellor to cut ODA spending from 0.5 to 0.3% of gross national income. Yvette Cooper’s words about UK values and “supporting those in conflict and extreme poverty” are welcome, but the reality of her statement reveals significant, real-life impacts. Girls will leave schools and children will go hungry. We will damage our international reputation, increase migration and hinder progress towards self-sufficiency through economic development. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to most of the world’s poorest countries, from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Malawi. It has a population of 1.3 billion people – and growing. Its land is degraded by climate change, many countries are ravaged by decades of conflict, and its population feels the impact of a volatile global economy far deeper than wealthy countries such as the UK. Yet this Labour government has decided to disproportionately cut aid to the …

Tens of millions more in acute hunger if Mideast war drags on, UN warns

Tens of millions more in acute hunger if Mideast war drags on, UN warns

Published by Sam Flores

An extra 45 million people could face acute hunger if the Mideast war carried on through June, swelling the number worldwide to a “terrible” high, the United Nations warned Tuesday. The war, now in its third week, has killed hundreds and seen Iran launch retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf nations, as well as a front opening in Lebanon with Israel battling Hezbollah. Source link