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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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 ...

Yet each night, about one in every 11 people go to bed on an empty stomach. That's not right. Conflict, climate change, and bad policy all play a role in creating the right conditions for hunger and ...

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

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 ...

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

The famine in East Africa has killed tens of thousands, and more people are dying every day. A devastating drought across the region, plus war, neglect and spiraling prices have all contributed to ...

Famine has already been declared in parts of ... raises serious questions about future food security in the Horn of Africa region. Entrenched civil conflicts and poor governance have contributed ...

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." ...