Famine

Ramesh Rajasingham, UN's deputy humanitarian chief, warned that up to 4 million people could have their aid reduced "in the coming weeks and months."

"They don't have any money left over to buy anything. It is a heartbreak. It really is," said the head of the U.N.'s World Food Program.

Wendy Sherman has expressed concerns about food security and the COVID pandemic in the isolated country.

What South Sudan needs most immediately is food and there is lack of funding to provide this critical aid.

As hundreds of thousands face the world's worst famine crisis in a decade, Ethiopia issued the cease-fire through the end of the planting season in September.

For the good of Tigray, Ethiopia, the East Africa region and the world, we ask Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to work toward a political solution as fast as possible.

The G7 must boost famine relief at the summit while it also ramps up vaccine distribution to stop the coronavirus.

Conflict and the climate crisis form a vicious circle that serves as a flywheel for hunger.

Now more than ever, the U.S. must exhibit global leadership in the fight against hunger.

Millions of civilians living in conflict-scarred nations face being pushed to the brink of starvation," said the executive director of the World Food Programme.

The United Nations has said more than 10 million North Koreans are facing severe food shortages.

North Korea's ruling regime keeps more than 100,000 individuals in death camps and has carried out a series of horrific executions.

A blockade is doing silent, long-term damage to the people of Yemen.

The skeletons are suspected to be those of plague and starvation victims.

Among the stressors survivors were exposed to: starvation, overcrowding, infectious diseases, strenuous physical activity and physical and emotional abuse.

The U.S. backed the country in its independence struggle. Now, it is needed again.

"The people have nothing here. This is the worst place I've ever seen in my life."

Ukraine's general prosecutor said it will charge Stalin and Lavrenti Beria over 70-year-old crimes, and is still investigating the mass starvation of 1932-33.

The jihadi group has displaced more than 2 million people across northeast Nigeria and neighboring countries.

Almost half the population face food shortages and 100,000 people are at risk of immediate starvation in South Sudan.

At least 82 aid workers have been killed since 2013 in South Sudan, the U.N. says.

White House officials are particularly concerned about Iran's growing influence in Yemen and beyond.

Famine is the latest of many man-made predicaments to hit South Sudanese civilians.

The U.N. made a formal declaration of famine in parts of South Sudan, which has been mired in civil war since 2013.

The role of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Bengal famine has been sharply criticized in a new book.

Some 16 million people in the region are in urgent need of food, water and healthcare.

Foreign aid workers will have to pay $10,000 for permits.

The silence of political leaders about the plight of their citizens is deafening, a U.N. official writes for Newsweek.

Civil war has engulfed South Sudan since December 2013, leaving millions without food.

Somalia is at risk of another deadly famine, six years after the last killed 250,000 people.