Tag: famine

An analysis by United Nations agencies and aid groups estimates that about 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region are in famine conditions, according...

Famine threatens the lives of up to 5.5 million people in South Sudan, where droughts and flooding destroyed crops and livestock, compounding “intense political...

Endemic violence in Central African Republic is pushing the country toward famine with 63% of the population already needing emergency aid, the...

At the height of Somalia's 2011 famine, Madow Mohamed had to leave her crippled five-year-old son Abdirahman by the side of the...

Grave concern about the threat of famine facing some 20 million people in conflict-affected Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and north-east Nigeria has...

The United States slammed South Sudan's President Salva Kiir for the African state's "man-made" famine and ongoing conflict, urging him to fulfil...

Millions of people face famine in Somalia and South Sudan and the situation is expected to worsen as the drought and violence...

Warning of increasing risk of mass deaths from starvation in many countries in Africa and in Yemen due to worsening drought and...

Deadly cholera is spreading through drought-ravaged Somalia as clean water sources dry up, a top aid official said, deepening a humanitarian crisis...

Seven-year-old Esther Agutti weighs seven kg - a third of the weight of the average child her age. She has been in hospital...