Letters to the Editor: Money for bombs but none to fight starvation

On this World Food Week, may we refuse to look away

People carry their belongings on a boat after their homes were destroyed by floods in Wad Ramli village, about 60km north of Khartoum, Sudan, earlier this month; millions are starving in the region. Picture: Marwan Ali/AP

Tonight, more than 733m people — nearly the equivalent of the population of Europe — will go to bed hungry. On this World Food Week, as we celebrate abundance in our own lives, we must pause and face this moral outrage. Hunger is not an accident; it is a failure of justice, compassion, and human responsibility.

In parts of East and West Africa, millions of families are enduring one of their worst hunger and food crises ever. Across parts of Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and other areas, parents watch their children waste away as drought, conflict, climate change, and soaring food prices steal both harvest and hope. The soil is cracked, livestock are dead, and the world remains largely silent.