Malnutrition

Virus could push 14 million into hunger in Latin America - UN

Signs of mounting hunger are already being felt around the region, where desperate citizens are violating quarantines to go out in search of money and food and hanging red and white flags from their homes in a cry for aid.

UN appeals for $6.7 billion to fight virus in poor countries

The $6.7 billion will fund the UN’s humanitarian response plan to help the world’s most vulnerable people deal with the pandemic now and in the coming months as food supplies falling and prices soaring, and children missing vaccinations and meals.

The pandemic’s implications for food security

The international community must act in tandem to prevent a major food shortage that will disproportionately hurt developing countries.

Pandemic hits aid work in sub-Saharan Africa

Emerging as a result of global coronavirus outbreak, social distancing measures, border closures and lack of resources affect the distribution of humanitarian aid in African countries in which 76 million people need aid to survive.

Africa’s vulnerability to Covid-19

The time to act in Africa is now, before the pandemic peaks on the continent.

Yemen’s children suffer the most as the five year war in Yemen rages on

Children in Yemen are most at risk, suffering and dying from acute malnutrition as they end up internally displaced and unable to continue their studies.

Double burden of obesity, undernourishment stalks world: report

This "double burden of malnutrition", or DBM, affects more than a third of some 130 countries classed as low-and middle-income, the report in the medical journal said.

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.