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Famine

Rethinking current famine classification: insights from history

Alex de Waal February 17, 2026

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Poor person in dirty cloth sitting front of bowl, living on street

Gender and Famine: Reflections on Hunger and Humiliation

Alex de Waal February 16, 2026

Famine Gender Gendering starvation Mass Starvation SGBV SGBV and Starvation

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graphic intended to convey gendered suffering

Gendered Suffering in Famine: the other side of gendered norms

Merry Fitzpatrick February 9, 2026

Ethiopia Famine Gaza Gender Gendering starvation SGBV SGBV and Starvation

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Sorghum Seeds

An exceptional farmer who survived a famine: my aunt Mary Ajok, South Sudan

Elizabeth Malou January 26, 2026

African Voices Famine Famine Voices South Sudan

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a woman and young child sit on a straw mat outside a canvas tent

Guilt, shame, and maternal agency: Famine voices from Abyei, on the South Sudan-Sudan border

Deng Nyol Kuol January 23, 2026

Famine Famine Voices South Sudan

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A woman clearing land for farming in South Sudan

Hard work, displacement, and survival: famine voices from Lainya, Central Equatoria, South Sudan

Luga Aquila January 22, 2026

Famine Famine Voices Mass Starvation South Sudan

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pot over a log fire

Moving for Survival: Oral Histories of Famine and Labour Migration in the Darfur–BeG Borderlands

Joseph Diing December 5, 2025

Darfur Famine Migration Sudan

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Still photo from video "Man recalls burying infants who starved in Sudan's Darfur camp", VOA (2025) (Public Domain)

Voices from al-Fashir

Nemat al-Hajj November 26, 2025

Darfur Famine Rapid Support Forces Sudan

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wooden bowl with few grains of rice, representing famine

Famine in Sudan, Famine in Gaza: Visualizing the Data

Alex de Waal, Kaitlyn Bell November 21, 2025

Famine Famine Data Gaza IPC Sudan

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photograph distribution of rice during famine china

Famine maps in history

Kaitlyn Bell November 7, 2025

Famine Famine Data Mass Starvation

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