Famine

A volunteer distributes food to people in Omdurman, Sudan, September 3, 2023. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig/File Photo
Africa

UN World Food Program launches investigation into its Sudan operations as famine spreads

The investigation by the WFP’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) comes as the UN’s food-aid arm is struggling to feed millions of people in war-plagued Sudan, now suffering one of the world’s...

A displaced Sudanese child pours water at Zamzam camp, in North Darfur, Sudan, August 1, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Jamal Jebrel/File Photo
Africa

Sudan's government denies famine exists in Darfur's Zamzam camp

A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. Photo: MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Africa

Sudan's famine-stricken Zamzam camp hit by devastating floods

A doctor checks Jana Ayad, a malnourished Palestinian girl, as she receives treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, June 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

UN experts say famine has spread throughout Gaza

A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Africa

Sudan faces famine risk in 14 areas, global hunger monitor says

Palestinian people receive food relief in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on 15 June, 2024. Photos: Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua
World+Biz

High risk of famine looms over Gaza, warns FAO

Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UNICEF finds 90% of Gazan children lack food needed for proper growth

A villager arrives to collect her monthly allocations of food aid provided by the World Food Program (WFP) in Mumijo, Buhera district east of the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, March 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo
Africa

More than half of Zimbabwean population will need food aid, cabinet says

Photo: AFP
Africa

Seven million face 'acute' food insecurity in South Sudan

A worker unloads humanitarian aid, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Erez Crossing point in northern Gaza, May 1, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
USA

Democratic lawmakers tell Biden evidence shows Israel is restricting Gaza aid

Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 5 March 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
World+Biz

UN report says 282 million people faced acute hunger in 2023, with the worst famine in Gaza

Palestinian woman Nozha Awad flees Al Shifa hospital following an Israeli raid with her triplet children, moving southward in the central Gaza Strip, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Famine 'quite possibly' in some areas of north Gaza, US official says

Palestinian children carry pots as they queue to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid shortages in food supplies, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 14, 2023. REUTERS/Saleh Salem/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Famine imminent in northern Gaza, says UN-backed report