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...
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SANDF missing the communication target
Former defence and military veterans minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on a number of occasions said words to the effect South Africans have to decide what...
