A UN-backed panel has confirmed famine in Gaza City for the first time, warning it could soon spread to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis. The IPC said the crisis is human-made and urged urgent aid access. Meanwhile, Israeli PM Netanyahu approved military plans to seize Gaza City while also calling for immediate hostage negotiations.
The last famine in Somalia was declared just over ten years ago in 2011, which led to the death of an estimated 250,000 people.
Among 2.2 million children, 538,000 are severely malnourished. An estimated 1.3 million women could be “acutely malnourished” by the end of the year. In a prognosis that is as graphic as it is heart-rending, Catherine Russell, executive director of Unicef, has warned that “more and more children are going to bed hungry in Yemen. This puts them at increased risk of physical and cognitive impairment, and even death.”
At least 125 people have already starved to death, trapped in one of the most inaccessible areas of Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region.
The UN humanitarian chief has decried the “man-made catastrophe” in Yemen, saying air strikes and armed clashes have increased dramatically,…
US Ambassador Nikki Haley has sharply criticised African nations for their "collective failure" to respond to the threat of famine…
Twenty million people in four African countries are on the brink of famine, senior staffers at the UN Food and…
The caption’s contradiction in terms is unavoidable for it underlines the grim tragedy of South Sudan. It is an “impossibility…
The caption’s contradiction in terms is unavoidable for it underlines the grim tragedy of South Sudan. It is an “impossibility…
Famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, where UN agencies warned on Monday that war and a collapsing…
