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

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 ...

One million more people in Somalia could face crisis levels of hunger in coming months due to a forecast drought during the ...

Both the warring parties thus continue to fuel this cycle of displacement and hunger, even as the WFP warns that "a protracted famine is taking hold," making ... secondary movement of people going to ...

Famine has been confirmed in more than ten locations in Sudan, according to the World Food Program. Another 17 are said to be "on the brink", as the UN body launches an appeal for U.S.$6 billion to ...

The exit from Africa’s largest ... among the world’s hunger hotspots. In early 2025, 7.5 million of their population were classified as in crisis, emergency or famine conditions.

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces have attacked the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp, residents and medics say, as the paramilitary tries to tighten its grip on its Darfur stronghold while losing ...

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 famine, first confirmed in North Darfur’s Zamzam camp in August, has since spread, with now an estimated 24.6 million people currently facing acute hunger, the UN said. The situation in ...

17 (UPI) --The United Nations called for global action Monday and $6 billion to fight famine and sexual violence ... with more facing hunger & violence. Today, with @Refugees, we launch our ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion ... 2023 – 20.4% of Africa, 8.1% of Asia, 6.2% of Latin America and the Caribbean, 7.3% of Oceania ...

A global hunger monitor determined in August that Zamzam was experiencing famine. In December, it confirmed famine in two other camps in al-Fashir. Earlier this month, MSF said it found that the ...