Mark Townsend
Senior Reporter at The Guardian
Senior reporter, the Guardian. Awards inc British press reporter of the yr, Amnesty, FPA, Orwell, Oneworld.. DM's open. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
UN peacekeepers should be routinely deployed to protect aid convoys from attack in places such as Gaza and Sudan, a senior United Nations expert has proposed. With starvation increasingly used as a weapon of war, Michael Fakhri said armed UN troops were now required to ensure that food reached vulnerable populations. “I’m calling for the UN general assembly to authorise peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys,” said the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
A UN aid convoy carrying critical food supplies to a famine-threatened city in western Sudan has been targeted in a brutal attack that appeared to have caused “multiple casualties”. A number of trucks belonging to the UN’s food and children’s agencies were attacked as they headed towards El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, which has been besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year.
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4 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
The new president of Somaliland says his state, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, is on the brink of securing international recognition – a development that would inflame tensions in the already tumultuous Horn of Africa.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Tom Ambrose |Amy Sedghi |Mark Townsend |Jason Burke |Maya Yang | +1 more
Trump backs aid for Palestinians, saying 'a lot of good things are going to happen over the next month'Donald Trump on Friday backed aid for the Palestinians, saying people in Gaza are starving and adding that he expected “a lot of good things” in the next month. According to Reuters, when asked whether he supported Israeli plans to expand the war in Gaza, the US president told reporters: I think a lot of good things are going to happen over the next month, and we’re going to see.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
Acute food insecurity continues to rise at an alarming rate, with almost 300 million people at risk of death through starvation, new analysis reveals. Escalating conflict and cuts to humanitarian aid along with climate and economic shocks forced an additional 13.7 million people into chronic food insecurity last year.
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