The United States spent decades responding to conflicts and disease in Africa. The continent is now expected to be the ...

US and Israeli officials have reached out to at least three East African countries, holding talks about using their ...

Just weeks after the U.S. government suspended its work in massive foreign aid cuts announced in January, humanitarians say ...

The time to step up is now” for the people of Somalia, where drought threatens 1.7 million young children at risk of acute malnutrition, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday.

The war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced more than 12 million and cut off crucial supply routes across the ...

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 ...

Some 30 million people in Sudan need aid, says UN Famine in at least five locations in Sudan, says UNICEF Hundreds of ...

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 ...

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 global Famine Early Warning System, which I helped create 40 years ago and initially directed. FEWS NET monitors 30 countries across Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and South Asia ...

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 ...