Famines are not common. When a famine is declared it means people are already dying. And the last time this happened, six years ago in the Horn of Africa, the cause was a natural one: drought. This ...

The United States' system for monitoring famine globally has been taken offline amid President Donald Trump's order for a ...

Irrespective of if there is a famine declaration in coming months or not, thousands have already lost their lives to extreme hunger. The International Rescue Committee is calling for concerted efforts ...

The United Nations’ top humanitarian official in Sudan says the paramilitary group at war with the military in Sudan is preventing life-saving aid from reaching many people in the famine-hit Darfur re ...

The UN resident and humanitarian co-ordinator in Sudan says that the Rapid Support Forces have imposed ‘obstruction, undue ...

The Trump administration's push to slash and overhaul U.S. foreign aid is severely undermining the global system designed to ...

the UN is warning of famine in parts of Somalia within months. January 2019 marked the start of the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history. With children in DRC at great risk, our teams worked to ...

Upon examining the FRC [Famine Reiew Committee] report we couldn ... in Sudan and were using the crisis "to undermine" the African nation's "sovereignty and territorial integrity." ...

War-hit Sudan is sliding into a "widening famine crisis" that has been marked by worsening starvation and a surge in acute malnutrition, an independent group of food security experts says.

and is credited with mitigating the effects of a devastating drought in the Horn of Africa in 2016. It has been used to try to target aid during the current famine in Sudan as the war continues there.

South Africa petitioned the court to order that all parties cease hostilities and release all hostages and detainees, citing the threat of famine affecting Palestinians in Gaza. According to a ...