Tag: food
Dire need for food aid in Ethiopia
More than eight million people need food aid in Ethiopia, a five percent rise from last year, due to a surge in violence that...
South Sudan violence blocking food aid
Violence in South Sudan is blocking deliveries of food aid needed to stave off severe hunger in some areas, the World Food...
Thousands arrive to collect long-awaited food supplies in South Sudan
At the muddy airstrip in Nyal, an opposition-held town in war-ravaged South Sudan, thousands of people came to collect the first food...
DR Congo food initiative failing
In 2014, Democratic Republic of Congo officials trumpeted a sweeping initiative they said would solve food shortages in one of the world's...
Hunger and conflict push northern Burkina Faso into crisis
Food shortages and a jihadist uprising in northern Burkina Faso risk plunging the region into a humanitarian crisis if urgent action is...
Food used as weapon of war in South Sudan
South Sudan President Salva Kiir's government is using food as a weapon of war to target civilians by blocking life-saving aid in...
South Sudan refugees risk death for food
Oliver Wani found sanctuary from South Sudan's civil war in a Ugandan refugee camp. But when food ran out, he returned home...
Egyptian court suspends food inspection system
An Egyptian court suspended a food inspection system intended to reform trade in agricultural commodities, lawyers on the case said, sowing uncertainty...
Food aid fight in Somalia leaves five dead
Five people were killed in crossfire between two groups of government soldiers when fighting broke out during distribution of relief food in...
UN emergency food aid in Nigeria cut
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has had to scale back plans for emergency feeding of 400,000 people in Boko Haram-hit...
$30 billion farm boost aimed to help Africa “feed itself”
African farmers are set to benefit from tens of billions of dollars pledged by African leaders, development banks, the private sector and...
Unrest in Ethiopia delaying aid to malnourished children – UN
Political violence in Ethiopia has delayed the distribution of aid to four million people hit by drought and floods, including malnourished children,...
Displaced in north-east Nigeria demand more food
Hundreds of people displaced by a Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria's north-east staged a protest in the region's main city on Thursday...
Food rations cut as South Sudan refugee influx to Uganda overwhelms...
The United Nations plans to halve food rations for 200,000 refugees in Uganda, following an "overwhelming" influx of South Sudanese fleeing attacks,...
WFP condemns Mogadishu ration card scam
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned a recently uncovered scam aimed at defrauding displaced people in Mogadishu and urges residents...
CAR faces food crisis
A recent rapid food security assessment conducted by the UN and NGOs the political and military issues in the Central African Republic...
Food inflation entrenched in southern Africa
Food inflation is becoming entrenched in southern Africa and there is little policy makers can do in the face of global markets,...
Niger: UN agency boosts aid as a million people face urgent...
The United Nations food aid agency announced plans to scale up its operations inside the poor West African country of Niger, where...
Sudan rebels say Khartoum using food as a weapon
Rebels from South Kordofan, Sudan's main oil-producing state, accused Khartoum yesterday of using food as a weapon against the Nuba community and...
SA govt worried about food prices
Food prices on international markets are rising again, three years after the food and global economic meltdown, says Minister of Agriculture, Forestry...