SIR: When we started the Feed the Hungry project, we were not fully familiar with the grim reality of how a toxic cocktail of conflict, climate change, and government’s failure to provide basic ...

Consequently, hunger leads to poverty, as hungry people produce below potential. 3,12 In most parts of Africa, poverty continues to be a rural phenomenon, although urban poverty is on the in ...

Across the Sahel. Conflict, economic shocks and climate change have also been driving mass displacement in Africa’s Sahel for years. Between 2015 and 2022, the number of people in the region in need ...

Africa’s Hunger Crisis Deepens as War, Climate Pile on Pain More than 280 million in region are going hungry, report says UN agencies, World Food Program, African Union call for action ...

Africa is leading the push for clean energy policy-making as climate change turns millions of its people into "food refugees," the head of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) Achim Steiner said.

Climate change, conflict and Ukraine are among drivers of the gravest food crisis in Africa's history. ... 42 other children had already been checked into the emergency unit, ravaged by hunger.

A lack of political will means hunger is still the cause of almost half of all child deaths in Africa, despite an economic boom on the continent, a new think tank report has found.

In Africa, which is home to 1.5 billion people, these shocks and stressors have slowed—or even reversed—decades of progress in improving food security and nutrition.

More than 24 million people in southern Africa face hunger, malnutrition and water scarcity due to drought and floods, an aid group has warned, as experts say the situation risks spiraling into an ...

The United Nations' food agency says months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon ... 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis ...

South Africa needs to improve health and social insurance coverage for both internal and international migrants.

I have often said that Africa is part of Brazil and that Brazil is part of Africa. More than half of the 212 million Brazilians acknowledge African ancestry. We share the Portuguese language with six ...