Famine

Famine fears in cyclone-hit Mozambique

More than one million people are in need of emergency assistance in the aftermath of devastation wreaked by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique.

More than 113 million people suffer 'acute hunger' globally, UN says

Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and Syria among the eight nations accounting for two-thirds of the total number of people worldwide exposed to the risk of famine, report says.

North Korea food production 'lowest for a decade' - UN

North Korea's recorded harvest was just 4.95 million tonnes last year, the United Nations said in its assessment.

85,000 children dead from 'extreme hunger' in Yemen

Aid group Save the Children says thousands of children under 5 years may have died of acute malnutrition since the civil war began in 2015. Meanwhile, UN calls for peace in Hudaida fell on deaf ears as the Saudi-led coalition renewed air strikes.

Battle for Hudaida: what you need to know

Millions in Yemen face one of the worst famines the world has seen in decades amid the Saudi-led coalition’s the battle for Hudaida. Here are more details

Fourteen million 'on brink of famine' in Yemen: charities

A joint appeal by the Yemeni and international organisations called for "secure an immediate cessation of hostilities" in the war-torn country, where they warned 14 million people were now "on the brink of famine".

UN humanitarian chief says danger of ‘big famine’ in Yemen

The UN humanitarian chief says the conflict in Yemen has left 11 million people dependent on emergency food assistance and 75 percent of its 22 million people require some form of aid.

Five million children risk famine in war-torn Yemen –– charity

Yemen's economy and population of 22 million people depend almost entirely on imports which could face disruption as fighting rages on around the city of Hudaida, home to country's main port.

Hudaida raid threatens lives of millions of Yemeni children – charity

Save the Children warns of humanitarian crisis after Saudi-backed alliance launched a series of attacks on rebel-held Hudaida port city, saying more than five million children were at risk of famine in the war-torn Arab nation.

Yemenis face growing challenges amid widespread famine

People in Yemen confront the world's worst humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country where 8.3 million are entirely dependent on external food aid, the UN says.

Families stranded in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta struggle to survive

Tightening siege by the Syrian regime forces in Damascus' Eastern Ghouta district has pushed around 400,000 people to the verge of famine.

Somalia faces yet another famine

Aid agencies warn the situation this year is beginning to resemble its 2011 famine, when more than a quarter of a million people died.