Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp in Sudan's North Darfur because of heavy fighting in the area, it said on Monday.

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

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 ...

The humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to worsen, with millions of lives at risk as violence spreads across the country ...

Africa is struggling with several humanitarian ... Those kitchens have now shuttered, and Sudan is facing “mass deaths from famine,” according to the United Nations human rights chief, Volker ...

The East African country faced famine in 2022, but a scale-up in humanitarian assistance helped to avert catastrophe. Today, food insecurity on the increase once again, with 3.4 million people ...

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 ...

Sudan is now the world's largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned ...

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

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 ...