Famine

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.

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

A recent study of Chinese women found a link between blood pressure and the sex of the baby.

As he begins his five-year term, Antonio Guterres writes that 2017 must be a year for peace.

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

The country's last mega-droughts killed hundreds of thousands. Could the same thing happen again?

A look at why today's U.N appeals have trebled since 2005's $5 billion.

The 1930s famine under Stalin's rule killed millions of people in Ukraine.

Chad, Zambia and the Central African Republic have the highest hunger levels in the world.