🔴A long-brewing crisis caused by drought, war and poverty has now been accelerated by the Taliban's shock takeover in August.
The militants' resumption of their Islamic emirate has been accompanied by a suspension of aid and now economic collapse telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
The World Food Programme estimates nearly 23 million of the country's 39m population are now unable to get regular access to enough food.
🗣️"Children are going to die. People are going to starve. Things are going to get a lot worse," David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme warned.
The cost of food staples like oil, wheat and rice have soared by up to 55% in the past year.
The country's economy has been largely reliant on aid and government workers have not been paid since Ashraf Ghani's government collapsed
🗣️“The situation is already desperate... When winter sets in we’re going to see more children going hungry than ever before,” Orlaith Minogue, Save the Children's senior conflict and humanitarian advocacy adviser, said
London was uniquely positioned to take the lead on Sudan's transition to democracy - but unwisely ceded the initiative to Washington, writes @mutazamd.
Vaccine passes are gaining traction around the world as countries introduce greater freedoms for the immunised.
🇳🇿New Zealand’s Covid policy has hit the headlines - with PM Ardern admitting that new covid restrictions risked turning the country into a “two-tier” society
Under the "traffic light" policy, those who are vaccinated will be able to move around and use services relatively freely, while the unjabbed will not.
❌The rare tuskless genetic condition in Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique has become far more common after years of ivory hunters devastating the species
Around 90% of the country’s elephant population were slaughtered between 1977 to 1992 by Kalashnikov-wielding armed groups for ivory to fund a bloody Cold War-era conflict.
🐘The survivors were likely to share a key characteristic: half the females were naturally tuskless
Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for a sprawling, oil rig-themed amusement park with flumes and jet skis, as the Gulf state attempts to boost Western tourism
The attraction, dubbed The Rig, will also include:
Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria's doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster than expected
📸Lisi Niesner/Reuters
They are also trying to understand the fate that will befall glaciers elsewhere if climate change is not halted