Podcast: ‘It’s the most significant issue of our time’

A region stretching across four east African nations is facing an unprecedented food-supply crisis.

Three successive seasons of drought, combined with high food prices and conflict, have left 24 million people facing malnutrition or even starvation.

Despite this, the global response to this situation has been muted at best. The story has been largely ignored in the media, while the international community has failed to pledge anywhere near enough money to meaningfully tackle the crisis, according to the UN.

On today's podcast, we talk to Ruadhán Mac Cormaic about the unfolding catastrophe and why the international community is failing the people of east Africa.

As theatre, Game of Trump has a dazzling collection of fools and jesters

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Indonesian province may move canings away from public eye

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Turkey dismisses more than 7,000 police and civil servants

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EU acts against Hungary as its leader targets liberal tycoon Soros

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Also on the podcast, we talk to Guy Hedgecoe in Madrid about the controversy there over a never-before-used constitutional provision that may be deployed to block a referendum on Catalan independence.