World Food Programme sounds alarm as food prices rise in MidEast - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Jul 8, 2021

AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images — A Syrian volunteer hands out plates of food prepared by a local charity for the Ramadan fast-breaking meal at a camp for people displaced by conflict in the town of Sarmada in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on April 13, 2021. — AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images

EDIRNE, TURKEY - MARCH 08: Refugees and migrants walk on a road towards the Pazarkule Border Crossing between Turkey and Greece on March 08, 2020 in Edirne, Turkey. Thousands of refugees and migrants have flocked to the Greece, Turkey border after Turkey announced that it would open border gates for a period of 72hrs to allow refugees to cross into European countries after thirty three Turkish soldiers were killed in a Syrian air raid in Idlib. (Photo by Burak Kara/Getty Images)

Syria risks another wave of migration, UN food agency warns

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Al-Monitor Staff

'People in Gaza are starving to death (due to) man-made hunger,' says the WFP

Famine imminent in north Gaza, an 'unprecedented' crisis: UN

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Yemen hunger

UN slashes food aid to Yemen amid funding crunch

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Al-Monitor Staff

Yemeni children fill jerrycans with water from a cistern at a camp for internally displaced people by conflict in the northern Hajjah province on October 12, 2020. (Photo by ESSA AHMED / AFP) (Photo by ESSA AHMED/AFP via Getty Images)

'Another cry for help from Yemen,' where 400,000 children could starve

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff