On the second day fleeing drought and hunger, 5-year-old Amina Abdi could no longer walk. She hadn't eaten in a week. Her tiny body was skeletal; her skin was flaking from severe malnutrition. She ...

Aug. 12 (UPI) --After years of progress in the fight against hunger, food insecurity is again a growing problem in Africa, where famine threatens millions of people -- new research suggests ...

Updated December 2019. Countries tip into famine and dangerous levels of hunger when people are unable to find, grow, or pay for food. Chronic poverty is part of the cause, coupled with weak ...

The impending famine in East Africa is a devastating example of the “System Failure” that the IRC warned about in our Emergency Watchlist 2022. The threat of famine has grown as the region and ...

Hunger Crisis in Africa Affects Over 300 ... many countries where the organization is working and people are affected by armed conflict causing them to “tip into famine-like conditions ...

Famine has afflicted at least 350,000 people in northern Ethiopia’s conflict-ravaged Tigray region, a starvation calamity bigger at the moment than anywhere else in the world, the United Nations ...

"To move the mountain, we begin by carrying away small stones." This Confucius quote brings perspective to the overwhelming task of addressing the hunger crisis in sub-Saharan Africa.

In the '80s, one song changes how we thought about hunger. Today, there is too much noise — and an even greater need for new voices 'We live with unprecedented connectivity.

He cited the 2011 famine in Somalia: of the roughly 250,000 people who died, more than half perished before a famine was declared. "We're saying, address this crisis through the front windscreen ...

The image would later go on to win a Pulitzer Prize and became one of the most iconic portrayals of the devastating famine that ravaged South Sudan in the early 90’s. ... All of these countries are in ...

The IRC warned in its first "Crisis Alert" update that millions in East Africa could die from "catastrophic famine" without "urgent" international funding.

Amid growing global concerns over alarming hunger spikes in conflict-affected communities and talk of intensifying levels of food insecurity possibly leading to famine, we looked into how - and ...