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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GENEVA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - 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 war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced more than 12 million and cut off crucial supply routes across the ...

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 ...