Malnutrition

Worsening world hunger affects 821 million, says UN

After decades of decline, malnutrition began to increase in 2015, mainly due to climate change and war. It remains widespread in Africa, with around 20 percent of the population affected and in Asia where more than 12 percent of people experience it.

Death toll from India 'brain fever' outbreak climbs to 136

Health officials link deaths to the ferocious heatwave gripping northern Bihar state since May, rejecting recent reports that claimed the disease was caused by eating lychees.

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.

Venezuela's crisis hits stand-still over emergency aid

Opposition leader Juan Guaido says his team had delivered a first cargo of the humanitarian aid that has become a flashpoint in his tussle with President Nicolas Maduro.

Child malnutrition on the rise in Venezuela

The Venezuelan health system is suffering as a result of the country's economic crisis.

No, Khashoggi and Yemen are not Saudi Arabia’s 'internal' affairs

Saudi Arabia's criticism of the US Senate resolution is unconvincing and is a sign that US-Saudi relations could be further tested under a Democrat-led Congress next year.

India wakes up to its child malnutrition epidemic

With the world's largest amount of malnourished children, can India come to grips with its problem?

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.

Malnutrition ravages Syrian children

The World Health Organization says nearly half of Idlib's three million people rely on food aid. The UN says 1.4 million of them have already been displaced at least once by repeated regime offensives.

Many Venezuelans are not finding the sanctuary they had hoped for abroad

Over the last three years, more than 1.5 million Venezuelans have left the country, fleeing hyperinflation and food and medical shortages. Some are dying in poverty, and a long way from home.

UNICEF appeals for funds to feed Congo's starving children

According to report released by UNICEF more than 700.000 children under 5 year of age suffer from acute malnutrition. UNICEF is urging to provide assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai region.