The IPC is meant to sound alarms that direct food aid to crisis spots. But the watchdog struggles to operate in areas of ...

This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the Atlantic Ocean to escape this famine. In 1841, Ireland had ...

The coarse paste of crushed peanut shells called ombaz is normally considered waste, and only fit to feed cattle. But for ...

Famine occurs when a country has such a severe ... has already impacted food supplies in Southeast Asia and Latin America. The declaration of famine does not unlock specific funding.

The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and ...

Major Food Aid 'Scale-Up' Underway to Famine-Hit Sudan, WFP Says GENEVA (Reuters) -More than 700 trucks are on their way to famine-stricken areas of Sudan as part of a major scale-up after ...

Shelling renewed at the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp on Wednesday, after a lull the previous day in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces, according to activists and medics.