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 ...

Some have likened the famine crisis in Africa to Katrina as an issue that could have been avoided. Famine has been a problem in Africa for a long time, but just as Cuba finds ways to protect its ...

A Sudanese paramilitary force locked in a war with the army has placed new constraints on aid deliveries to territories where ...

If we sincerely hate famine, we must be in love with farming ... The poverty rate is pegged around 40 per cent. It is the biggest in Africa. By the year 2030, the GDP will also garner an additional ...

US and Israeli officials have reached out to at least three East African countries, holding talks about using their territories as destinations for Palestinians displaced from Gaza. According to ...

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.

Just weeks after the U.S. government suspended its work in massive foreign aid cuts announced in January, humanitarians say ...

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 Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS ... “Imagine that that data is available to regions like Africa and has been utilized for years and years – decades – to help inform divisions ...

Volker Türk's warning came a day after the U.N. World Food Program has temporarily stopped distributing food aid in a famine-struck camp for displaced people in Sudan's North Darfur amid ...