Kaamil Ahmed

@kaamilahmed.bsky.social

Reporter at the Guardian, on the Global Development team. Author of “I Feel No Peace” - the stories of Rohingya refugees facing persecution, abuse and exploitation

Young Senegalese footballer Cheikh Toure died last month after he was tricked into travelling abroad with fake promises of opportunities to play in Morocco His death's an extreme example of how fake agents lure thousands of young players abroad for profit www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘They killed my only son’: the young west African footballers scammed by fake agents

Cheikh Touré died after being lured abroad in one of a growing number of extortion schemes tricking talented teenagers with dreams of making it big

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“You always know that it could be you who gets shot, or it might be someone next to you.” This is in the minds of Palestinians who see death when they seek aid from the GHF militarised food distribution sites. Still they go because they have no choice www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk

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“You always know that it could be you who gets shot, or it might be someone next to you.” This is in the minds of Palestinians who see death when they seek aid from the GHF militarised food distribution sites. Still they go because they have no choice www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story

Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk

theguardian.com

Ground situation in Gaza unsustainably awful. Israel's 'humanitarian' scheme is atrocious. Reoccupation of Gaza & slow suffocation of West Bank leading to erasure of Palestinian life. Time U.S. blow whistle, revert to previous Gaza ceasefire, get hostages out; get negotiated end to this nightmare.

This is the scene in Tawila in Darfur after the RSF’s attack on Zamzam camp. People settling in the open after days-long journeys by foot or on carts with the elderly and injured. IOM says 180,000 people arrived in Tawila in less than a week.

Alwaleed Abeen was a popular man but his many friends didn't recognise him in a video from a recently-abandoned RSF torture camp, starved and lying on the floor - even when he said his name His death soon afterwards reminded them of the horrors imposed by the RSF theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘No one recognised him, even as he said his name’: last video of rescued man shows horror of Sudan torture camps

Death of well-known Khartoum businessman Alwaleed Abdeen days after his release from an RSF camp prompts wave of mourning

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Alwaleed Abeen was a popular man but his many friends didn't recognise him in a video from a recently-abandoned RSF torture camp, starved and lying on the floor - even when he said his name His death soon afterwards reminded them of the horrors imposed by the RSF theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘No one recognised him, even as he said his name’: last video of rescued man shows horror of Sudan torture camps

Death of well-known Khartoum businessman Alwaleed Abdeen days after his release from an RSF camp prompts wave of mourning

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"More than 1 million people in Myanmar will be cut off from WFP’s lifesaving food assistance starting in April due to critical funding shortfalls. These cuts come just as increased conflict, displacement & access restrictions are already sharply driving up food aid needs" www.wfp.org/news/wfp-war...

WFP warns one million in Myanmar to be cut off from food aid amid funding shortfall | World Food Programme

YANGON, Myanmar – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that more than one million people in Myanmar will be cut off from WFP’s lifesaving food assistance starting in April due to...

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"Famine is really a human-made tragedy...We need action to ensure everyone can produce locally." World Food Prize Laureate Rattan Lal reminding us that agricultural development is the most powerful route out of poverty. Via @kaamilahmed.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Aid workers warn ‘people are dying and they’re going to continue dying’ as funding cuts hit

Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say experts

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If you’re looking for something to do in London this weekend, my exhibition at Chelsea Library is running until the 28th February, featuring photos of Rohingya refugees taken while working on I Feel No Peace. Also, the paperback version has just been released @HurstPublishers

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If you’re looking for something to do in London this weekend, my exhibition at Chelsea Library is running until the 28th February, featuring photos of Rohingya refugees taken while working on I Feel No Peace. Also, the paperback version has just been released @HurstPublishers

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The paperbacks for I Feel No Peace have arrived. It’s exciting to see the book in a new form. If you want to understand the growing threat to the Rohingya’s existence, and the history to it, you can pre-order for next month’s release

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