Famine watchdog projects 756,000 Sudanese face starvation in coming months
An estimated 25.6 million people face critical shortages, including more than nine million people in an emergency situation or worse.
Sun Jun 16 2024
Kenyan families weep for starvation cult victims as first bodies released
More than 400 bodies exhumed so far, of followers whose doomsday cult leader induced them to starve themselves.
Wed Mar 27 2024
Gaza's catastrophic food shortage means mass death is imminent, monitor says
The IPC estimated two people out of every 10,000 dying daily from starvation or from malnutrition and disease.
Tue Mar 19 2024
South Africa asks World Court for more measures against Israel
South Africa warned that people in Gaza facing starvation and asked court to order all parties cease hostilities and release all hostages.
Thu Mar 07 2024
Kenyan cult leader to face murder charges in starvation deaths
Paul Mackenzie and 30 associates to undergo mental health evaluations before being charged with the murder of 191 children.
Wed Jan 17 2024
Aid supplies to Gaza halted again, UN says starvation imminent
The United Nations' World Food Programme said civilians faced the "immediate possibility of starvation" due to the lack of food supplies.
Fri Nov 17 2023
Inside a Kenyan starvation cult and its tragic end in a forest of death
Cult leader Paul Mackenzie had predicted the end of the world, ordered followers to starve themselves and their children to death.
Thu May 04 2023
More than 11,000 children killed or wounded in Yemen since 2015 - UNICEF
Thousands of children have lost their lives, hundreds of thousands more remain at risk of death from preventable disease or starvation.
Tue Dec 13 2022
Donors pledge $1.1 billion for 'collapsing' Afghanistan
After decades of war and suffering, Afghans are facing "perhaps their most perilous hour"
Tue Sep 14 2021
UN food chief urges rich to help keep millions from starving
The WFP and its partners were going all out to reach as many as 138 million people this year, the biggest scale-up in our history.
Fri Sep 18 2020
Thai elephants, out of work due to coronavirus, trudge home
As many as 2,000 tame elephants are at risk of starvation because their owners are unable to feed them.
Thu May 07 2020
EU may shun Myanmar generals in new sanctions: draft
Thousands of the Rohingya fled for Myanmar to Bangladesh on Monday in a new surge of refugees driven by fears of starvation and violence which the United Nations denounced as ethnic cleansing.
Tue Oct 10 2017
Fight against hunger loses steam in Asia-Pacific: Study
News study shows that progress in the fight against hunger in the Asia-Pacific region has faltered in the last five years.
Tue Dec 06 2016
Aid convoy reaches starving Syrian town of Madaya
An aid convoy entered a besieged Syrian town on Monday where thousands have been trapped without supplies for months and people are reported to have died of starvation.
Tue Jan 12 2016
Turn those thoughts into actions
Shein Shanin thinks about the menacing ailments of city life and that we as a nation should help make a difference.
Wed May 14 2014