Here, 10 more things you need to know about famine and why the ‘F-word’ of the humanitarian sector is only used when a food crisis has reached a calamitous stage. Nyadhial's baby daughter, Machar, ...

Let us emphasize right away that Sudan is not experiencing nor can experience a severe famine. Upon examining the FRC [Famine Reiew Committee] report we couldn't but think that the issue of hunger ...

The IRC is predicting imminent famine in Somalia, Yemen and northeastern Nigeria. Kenya and Ethiopia are also grappling with severe drought and hunger, even as they struggle to host hundreds of ...

JOHNSTOWN, N.Y., Jan. 18. -- A water famine is threatened here. There is but little water in the two reservoirs and the schools are closed. There is not enough water to supply boilers of heating ...

Mona Ibrahim has already buried two of her children. Mary Lupul, humanitarian director at aid group Save the Children, ...

In the span of just two months, the Sudanese mother watched helplessly as severe malnutrition killed her 10-year-old daughter, Rania, and her eight-month-old son, Montasir, in the famine-stricken ...

January 10, 2025 (UNITED NATIONS) – Sudan is facing a growing risk of widespread famine as a dire humanitarian ... are likely suffering from the most severe and life-threatening form of ...

emphasizing the "deeply worrying news" about famine spreading across the country. Wosornu stressed the severe impact of armed conflict on civilian population as well as on aid workers, and said ...