Sudan, Israel-Palestine, Nigeria.

Today's three stories you should know.

Sudan

It is - inexplicably - one of the most underreported conflicts in the world. I say inexplicably because the situation in Sudan is desperate. Reuters today published a deeply disturbing report on the struggles people are facing trying to feed themselves. The number of Sudanese facing “emergency levels of hunger” has risen to five million, according to the story. “We are in grave danger of epic, biblical style famine in Sudan,” Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said. The war is estimated to have killed more than 14,000 people.

More from Reuters here.

Israel-Palestine

Sticking with hunger, and as mentioned in yesterday’s Proximities, children are starving to death in Gaza, according to the UN’s World Food Programme. And health officials there said on Wednesday that at least 20 people, children and adults, have now died from malnutrition and dehydration. Al Jazeera today spoke to people in Gaza about how they are surviving. It is an important read.

More from Al Jazeera here.

Nigeria

Dozens of people, mostly women, have been kidnapped in northeastern Nigeria by fighters from the Boko Haram armed group, the BBC reported. There were widely varying reports of the number of people kidnapped: from 50 - 300. Kidnapping for ransom has reached crisis levels in Nigeria, particularly in the increasingly unstable north, where criminal gangs target villages, schools and universities. Boko Haram, though, has kidnapped thousands of girls over the years, according to rights groups, most of whom were forced into sexual slavery.

More from BBC here.