Famine

CA at the official inauguration of the Bangladesh Investment Summit 2025 this morning (9 April). Photo: CA Press Wing
Bangladesh

Yunus becomes emotional while talking about 1974 famine 

“People died due to hunger. Our country experienced a huge famine. 1.5 million people died. That was the reality of independent Bangladesh,” he said

A displaced Sudanese woman rests inside a shelter at Zamzam camp, in North Darfur, Sudan, August 1, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Jamal Jebrel/File Photo
Africa

UN seeks $6 billion to ease hunger catastrophe in Sudan

Sudanese people, who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, cross the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad August 4, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
Africa

Sudan drops out of hunger-monitor system on eve of famine report

File Photo: Palestinian women and girls struggle to reach for food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip Friday, 6 December 2024. Photo: AP via UNB
Middle East

Syria struggles; Gaza nears famine, WFP warns

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

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