A historic drought across southern Africa has pushed 26 million people into food insecurity, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned Wednesday, calling for urgent funding.

“It’s a cocktail of conflict, climate and contagion that’s come to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,” said Peter Musoko, the WFP’s resident representative in the country, at a presentation in ...

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“Both in terms of spread and the acuteness of hunger, this is the worst humanitarian hunger catastrophe that we have on the ...

A historic drought across southern Africa has jeopardised access to food for 26 million people, the United Nations World Food ...

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“I walked about eight kilometres (five miles) to get bread,” Hatem Kullab, a displaced Palestinian living in a neighbourhood of makeshift tents, told AFP. It was in the middle of one of these crowds ...

Serious problems in the United Nations World Food Program’s response to the Sudan crisis are hampering the organization’s ...

Sudan is coping with the apathy of a failing international system. You’re reading an excerpt from the WorldView newsletter.

Nearly 24 million people are in dire need of food or cash assistance to avoid slipping into poverty and food insecurity, aid ...