Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
This is according to the UN which says that half the residents in the region are facing chronic food insecurity and malnutrition as violence continues to escalate. The fighting is blamed on Boko Haram militants and estimates indicate that 2.4 million people have been forced to flee from their homes …
The director of UN humanitarian operations warned Tuesday that 7.6 million people in conflict-torn Yemen face severe food shortages and are "one step" from famine. John Ging, who just returned from Yemen, told a news conference that there has been "a shocking fall off" in support from the donor community …
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Flash floods in drought-stricken parts of Ethiopia have killed people and livestock and are blocking food aid deliveries to hungry communities, a charity said. Ethiopians have been waiting for the spring rains to replenish water sources and to plant crops after the most severe drought …
Washington, D.c. — The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced it is providing nearly $68 million for emergency food assistance, to reach approximately 2.5 million Sudanese as well as refugees from South Sudan and other neighbouring states. In a press statement on Friday, USAID says this assistance will be …
The worst part of Mulugeta Kassaw's job is not when dangerously thin children arrive at his health center in drought-stricken northern Ethiopia, often at death's door. It is when they recover and must be sent home. "The mothers are not willing to go because they don't have anything at home …
Severe droughts and floods triggered by one of the strongest El Niño weather events ever recorded have left nearly 100 million people in southern Africa, Asia and Latin America facing food and water shortages and vulnerable to diseases including Zika, UN bodies, international aid agencies and governments have said. New …
Zimbabwe needs nearly $1.6 billion in aid to help pay for grain and other food after a drought that has badly affected harvests and left 3 million people in need, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday. That figure includes nearly $720 million to pay for 1.4 million tonnes of …
El Nino, a natural weather pattern linked to extreme droughts, storms and floods, could be one of the strongest on record this year. Parts of Africa are already facing hunger, disease and water shortages. El Nino, which is sparked by a rise in sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, …
More than 2.8 million people will face hunger in the coming months in the worst food crisis in a decade in Malawi, where a staggering four out of every 10 children suffer from stunting, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. “People in some affected districts have already …
WASHINGTON -- Fourteen percent of U.S. households lacked access to enough good food at some point last year, according to the latest annual food insecurity estimate from the federal government. The change from last year's 14.3 percent is too small to count as statistically significant, but the decline from 14.9 …
The in-kind contribution of mixed food items worth US$75 million will meet the food needs of more than 2 million people, including displaced people, school children and vulnerable households in Darfur and central and eastern Sudan, for up to five months. WFP will include the food donation of sorghum, lentils …
The number of hungry Ethiopians needing food aid has risen sharply this year to 4.5 million due to poor rains and the El Nino weather phenomenon, the UN has said. With rains poorer than predicted, "food insecurity increased and malnutrition rose as a result," the UN Office for the Coordination …
The number of Ethiopians who will need food aid by the end of this year has surged by more than 1.5 million from earlier estimates, according to United Nations agencies. After failed rains, some 4.5m people are now projected to require assistance, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian …
The number of Ethiopians who will need food aid by the end of this year has surged by more than 1.5 million from earlier estimates due to failed rains, United Nations agencies said on Monday. Ethiopia needs an extra $230 million from donors to secure aid for a total of …
The war in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with both commercial food imports and aid deliveries held up by the fighting and millions of hungry women and children facing possible starvation, the United Nations said Wednesday. Ertharin Cousin, head of the U.N.’s World Food Program, …
The United Nations announced Wednesday its plans to reach 200,000 with emergency food aid in flood-affected Myanmar, which was recently hit by flooding caused by heavy rains and monsoon. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here that the World Food Program (WFP) is now focusing efforts on reaching Bago, Chin, Kachin, …
Conflict-ridden Yemen, where more than 3,000 people have been killed and one million displaced since war broke out in March, is at risk of famine, aid chiefs said on Tuesday, the day after the conflict's highest one-day death toll was recorded. The situation is "clearly deteriorating by the day," said …
Starvation is looming in Zimbabwe after widespread failure of crops coupled by the country's policies that have failed to stimulate economic growth. A snap survey by The Standard in various parts of the country showed that a large chunk of the staple crop -- maize -- is now a write …
The paper raises several questions that need to be faced while further developing subsidy rules in the World Trade Organization. Its primary focus is on whether the shift in the distribution of agricultural subsidies has changed the relevance of the AoA. Examining whether the AoA has successfully distinguished between “good” …
The United Nations envoy in Somalia warned today that despite some political and security gains, the humanitarian situation in the long-troubled country has deteriorated, with more than three million people now in need of assistance, including over one million Somalis who do not have enough to eat. This number is …
