Famine

Famine

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

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

The areas listed by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) as at risk of famine are those that have seen the heaviest fighting: the capital Khartoum, the regions of Darfur and...

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Famine imminent in northern Gaza, says UN-backed report

European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a joint news conference with Lebanon's caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib in Beirut, Lebanon 6 January 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo

Hunger being used 'as a war arm' in Gaza, EU's Borrell charges

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

Britain to warn Israel's Gantz over famine in Gaza

Palestinians with 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, 13 February 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo

Famine looms in Gaza: How will the world know it has arrived?

Displaced Palestinians wait to receive free food at a tent camp, amid food shortages, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 February, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

UN agency warns of ‘looming famine’ in Gaza amid Israel war