Hunger afflicts one in ten globally, UN report finds
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World revealed that between 691 and 783 million people faced hunger in 2022, with a mid-range of 735 million, representing an…
War, famine and unrest increase world hunger, research report
According to a new report, more than 250 million people are suffering from hunger and famine worldwide due to increasing malnutrition. Photo: File Geneva: According to a new report, global…
DRC: Lives shattered by violence, displacement and hunger in ‘forgotten crisis’: WFP
According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), since March 2022 alone, 5.7 million people have been displaced in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri. Record…
Muammar Gaddafi’s son went on hunger strike against detention without trial
Photos before and after the capture of Hannibal Gaddafi Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has gone on hunger strike to protest his detention without trial.…
Time running out to save Myanmar’s Rakhine from hunger and disease post-Cyclone Mocha
Some 1.6 million people in Rakhine, Chin, Magway, Sagaing, and Kachin states are in dire need of assistance after Mocha’s 250 kilometre per hour wind gusts destroyed homes, farmland and…
UN humanitarians complete first food distribution in Khartoum as hunger, threats to children, intensify
WFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe, told reporters in Geneva that in a major breakthrough, the agency distributed food assistance to 15,000 people in both Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)…
UN agencies warn of rising hunger risk in 18 ‘hotspots’
Sudan, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Mali have been elevated to the highest alert level, joining Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Additionally, a likely El Niño – a naturally…
Despite ‘slightly’ improved food security in Yemen, hunger stalks millions
“The United Nations and its partners made strides in rolling back the worst food insecurity last year, but these gains remain fragile, and 17 million people are still food insecure…
‘No time to spare’: Israel-Palestine ceasefire holds, but hunger, tensions mount
“There is no time to spare,” said Tor Wennesland, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. “We must take action, not only to ensure Palestinian well-being and…
Cyclone Mocha: urgent funding needed as hunger, diseases loom
In Myanmar, the UN appealed on Tuesday for $333 million to assist 1.6 million of the most vulnerable people, many of whom have lost their homes as the cyclone hit…