UNCCD launches ‘Global Drought Snapshot’ report at COP28 in collaboration with International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA) Recent drought-related data based on research in the past two years and compiled by the UN point to “an unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale, where the massive impacts of human-induced droughts are only …
The International Forum of Nongovernment Organisations in Nigeria, INGO, says nearly four million displaced people are "facing acute levels of hunger" and face difficulty eating every day. The group warns that the situation could worsen when the rains are over. It lists food, protection and livelihood as the "direst needs" …
NOTHING in India is as terrifying as the thought that the monsoon might not come. Robert Kaplan, in his book “Monsoon”, claims global warming is causing a more erratic monsoon, which “could spell disaster”. Around half of India’s population, some 600m people, still depend on farming, and nearly two-thirds of …
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 …
North Korea faces further food shortages as production in the country's main growing region is expected to be cut in half, the United Nations food agency said. U.N. representatives visited the country's breadbasket in North Hwanghae and South Hwanghae provinces on June 10 and found that potato, wheat and barley …
Climate change means rain is returning to previously drought-stricken areas of Africa exactly 30 years since Live Aid raised £150million to help starving people there, a new study has revealed. A severe lack of rainfall during the 1970s and 80s led to a persistent drought and famine, killing more than …
The number of people facing food shortages is projected to hit 4.6 million by July At least 40% of South Sudan’s population will face severe food shortage over the next couple of months as the latest escalation in a bloody civil war disrupts farming and aid deliveries, a top aid …
At a hospital in Mogadishu's Yaqshid district, children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, worsened by stomach and chest infections, are receiving treatment that is likely saving their young lives. Three years have elapsed since famine killed more than a quarter of a million people in Somalia –- more than half …
MORE than 20,000 residents of Magadi risk starvation if they do not receive immediate food assistance, area MCA Peter Pariken said yesterday. "Families have moved with their children into Tanzania in search of grazing areas, and schools are now almost empty," Pariken told the Star. The Kajiado county government yesterday …
Nairobi — At least 1.6 million Kenyans are facing famine, according to the Ministry of Devolution and Planning. A multi-agency assessment meeting of stakeholders pointed out that immediate relief was required for the next six months to support affected areas. "The findings of the assessment estimate that at least 1.63 …
Vietnam launched here on Wednesday a national action plan to promote the Zero Hunger Challenge, an important initiative to remove famine raised by the United Nations (U.N.) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon since 2012. Speaking at the launching ceremony, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said in the past few decades, …
JAJARKOT, JAN 15 - The threat of acute shortage of food looms large in the remote region owing to the failure of Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) to transport subsidized rice to its depots located in remote parts of the district for the past eight months. The transportation of rice in …
UMERKOT: The ongoing spell of drought and accompanied sickness in Tharparkar claimed another 14 lives on Monday, all infants. The latest casualties take the death toll from drought to 80 in just 48 days. Four children died as a result of malnutrition and thirst on Monday followed by a further …
Leading aid agencies operating in South Sudan have warned that parts of the country, already facing one of the world's worse food crises, could experience famine early next year unless the current conflict is resolved. In a report launched on October 06, entitled "From Crisis to Catastrophe", the aid agencies …
Emergency food aid, normal rainfall and the start of the harvest have helped to stave off famine in South Sudan, the latest analysis shows, but there is a risk of mass starvation in early 2015. Aid agencies scrambled to avert famine in South Sudan by launching the world’s largest humanitarian …
DIPAYAL: Folks of hilly districts in the far-west are facing food crisis due to obstruction of supply of food grain after the road was damaged due to landslide some two-and-a-half months ago. The roads of hilly districts, including Bajura, Bajhang, Achham and Doti, among others, were swept away in the …
This new report published by the the UNICEF Office of Research details both the accelerating global threats to children, as well as the urgent need to incorporate a comprehensive child rights approach, including directly involving children, in adaptation and mitigation efforts. It estimates that over the next decade, in South …
The United Nations has reported alarming rates of malnutrition in the Somali capital where aid agencies cannot meet the needs of 350,000 people due to insufficient funds, drought and conflict. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the Somali government had compared the situation to the …
A surge in the number of emaciated children arriving at a feeding centre in Leer, a muddy rebel-held town in South Sudan's oil-rich Unity State, is fuelling fears that the world's newest nation is on the brink of famine. Food stocks are running low across conflict-ravaged northern regions of the …
Some four million people in South Sudan are likely to face critical food shortages next month, British aid agencies have warned. But the Disasters Emergency Committee says the cost of mounting an appeal to pay for aid might outweigh donations. South Sudan's president has already warned of "one of worst …
A week after yet another peace deal was signed for South Sudan, the threat of famine still stalks the world's youngest nation, where more than seven million people are at risk of hunger and disease, a top U.N. official has warned. “Now that the rains have set in, conditions in …
