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A displaced child lines up for food distribution in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, October 17, 2024
MORE than one billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40 per cent live in conflict-torn and fragile countries, according to a damning new report released on Thursday.
The report by the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford in Britain also said that more than 83 per cent of poor people live in rural areas.
The report also said that 83 per cent of those in acute poverty live in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia.
While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE
JENNY CLEGG reports from a Chinese peace conference bringing together defence ministers, US think tanks and global South leaders, where speakers warned that the erosion of multilateralism risks regional hotspots exploding into wider war
