For example, Fews Net has been credited with saving up to a million lives in 2016, when it predicted and responded to a famine in the Horn of Africa. “We are really a pillar,” says Laouali Ibrahim, a ...

US and Israeli officials have reached out to at least three East African countries, holding talks about using their ...

The conflict in Sudan has created the "largest and the most devastating humanitarian crisis in the world" as the warring ...

The time to step up is now” for the people of Somalia, where drought threatens 1.7 million young children at risk of ...

The war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced more than 12 million and cut off crucial supply routes across the ...

7.0% of Oceania 2021 – 20.2% of Africa, 9.1% of Asia, 8.6% of Latin America and the Caribbean, 5.8% of Oceania 1921-1922 – Famine in the Soviet Union, results in 9 million deaths. 1927 – In ...

the global Famine Early Warning System, which I helped create 40 years ago and initially directed. FEWS NET monitors 30 countries across Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and South Asia ...

The U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday that it was forced to suspend operations in and around the famine-hit Zamzam displacement ... director for Eastern Africa and acting country director ...

Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a ...