Analysis - The use of starvation as a weapon of war is reversing decades of improvements in global hunger.
Modern conflicts are increasingly marked by the use of hunger as a weapon of war, and children are disproportionately affected. In Burkina Faso, Sudan, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo , conflict is driving emergency levels of hunger.
On 6 March, South Africa filed a request for additional provisional measures at the International Court of Justice and a modification of the court's 26 January order in its ongoing case against Israel. South Africa's application highlights the impending famine in Gaza due to Israel's military siege.
In 2023, the WFP suspended food aid to Ethiopia following accusations of coordinated aid theft. In 2022, a UN panelEthiopia's government of using 'starvation as a method of warfare' in Tigray and obstructing access to food, humanitarian assistance, healthcare and essential services. Because of the conflict, only half of Tigray's farmlands were active during the last planting season, with even lower yields.
Over the past three months alone, up to one million people have been displaced in the DRC. Recent advances of armed groups towards Sake - a crucial connecting city - threaten the entire aid. If removed from government control, armed groups could cut off food and aid from nearby Goma, which holds over two million displaced people.
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