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Mass Starvation

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History & Future of Famine

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Can we Compare Famines? Gaza, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tigray, Yemen

Alex de Waal March 22, 2024

Famine Gaza Mass Starvation Somalia Sudan Tigray Yemen

News

Two roughened hands hold a dirty silver bowl.

Mass Starvation: Recent media commentary from Alex de Waal on Gaza, Sudan, and Tigray

World Peace Foundation March 13, 2024

Accountability Famine Gaza Mass Starvation Sudan Tigray

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A Humanitarian Lexicon for Darker Times

Alex de Waal February 14, 2024

Atrocities Famine Humanitarianism Mass Starvation Starvation Crimes

Essay

Two roughened hands hold a dirty silver bowl.

Can the International Court of Justice Stop Starvation in Gaza?

Alex de Waal January 16, 2024

Accountability Famine Gaza Mass Starvation

Genocide, Starvation and Famine

Bridget Conley June 23, 2023

Book

Accountability for Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law

Accountability for Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law

Essay

Photo of Ethiopian farmer plowing rocky fields with plow pulled by cows

‘Tigray’s Wounded Agriculture and a Second Year of Famine: An Urgent Call for Action’

World Peace Foundation May 9, 2022

Ethiopia Famine Mass Starvation Tigray

What Justice for Starvation Crimes?

Alex de Waal September 3, 2021

Paper

Starving Tigray: How Armed Conflict and Mass Atrocities Have Destroyed an Ethiopian Region s Economy and...

Alex de Waal April 1, 2021

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