The British charity, Oxfam, has called for urgent action to prevent millions of people hit by famine in war-torn South Sudan. JPEG - 47.4 kb An aerial view of a UN camp for internally displaced people
The British charity said people were falling ill from eating grass and weeds. A four-year civil war, poor harvests and rising food prices have been blamed for the widespread hunger in the world's youngest
Kapedo town, located on the boundary of Baringo and Turkana counties, has known no peace as tensions flare among communities. There is uneasy calm along an eight-kilometre road named the 'valley of death'
An estimated 900,000 residents living in Nairobi’s slum areas are starving, it has now emerged. According to a survey by City Hall in partnership with the Kenya Red Cross, Oxfam and World Concerns, 30
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said 29 African countries out of 37 are currently in need of external food assistance, unchanged from November 2017. The UN food agency listed the countries
Somalia will plunge back into famine if humanitarian aid is pulled out of the Horn of Africa country, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in a statement Monday. The statement came ahead of the
Over 3.4 million Kenyans face death from starvation as a result of an acute food shortage that has hit at least 14 counties. The bad news comes barely two months after the government froze the Sh90
Some 27. 5 million people are in dire need of food aid in 10 African countries due to drought, officials announced last week. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction and
Conflict is worsening global starvation, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as it called for greater peace-building efforts to end hunger for almost 500 million people living in war zones. In the world's
Scientists are engaged in a race against time to breed staple crops that can both survive climate change and yield bigger harvests. Their aim is to feed a growing population in a warming world. The
