Famine

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

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“The people have nothing here. This is the worst place I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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.

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.

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.

Food has long been used as an instrument of power, one that lets populations live or die.

Food prices have risen by 200 percent in some areas of Yemen.

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The U.N. has also expressed fears over the country’s food security.

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