Bangladeshi authorities have sent the army in to help deliver water supplies in the capital, Dhaka.
A lack of power to run pumps is leading to a serious shortage of drinking water.
Hundreds of people defied a government ban on protests to show their anger at the problem, as Zeina Awad reports.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports on Guatemala, a country in Latin America most affected by rising food prices and inflation.
A large number of Guatemalans live at or below the poverty line. Officials there worry that people who barely managed to afford food before are now going hungry.
Israel’s lockdown on Gaza has virtually stopped the flow of vital supplies, the economy is in tatters and even black market goods are becoming hard to find.
Fuel supplies are in danger of drying up completely forcing Palestinians to resort to desperate measures.
David Chater reports.
Twenty-seven key UN agencies have been meeting in the Swiss capital Bern to hammer out a solution to the growing global food crisis. The meeting is expected to produce a plan of emergency and long-term measures to combat the crisis. Inside Story asks how workable such a plan will be and what obstacles it might face.
Colombia’s internal conflict with Farc rebels is spilling into neighbouring countries and has already brought Ecuador and Colombia to the brink of war, as Bogota alleges the Farc is using Ecuador territory to launch attack. But, as Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez discovers, it is also creating a refugee crisis.