The East African country faced famine in 2022, but a scale-up in humanitarian assistance helped to avert catastrophe. Today, food insecurity on the increase once again, with 3.4 million people already ...

The United Nations on Wednesday said “the already catastrophic situation" in Sudan has worsened since the last Security Council briefing just weeks ago and that famine is now a reality in ...

More than 600,000 people in Sudan are “on the brink of starvation” as famine stalks the war-torn country, the United Nations has warned. UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday that ...

Volker Turk's warning came a day after the U.N. World Food Programme has temporarily stopped distributing food aid in a famine-struck camp for displaced people in Sudan's North Darfur amid ...

(AP Photo) CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the ...

(AP Photo) This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo) CAIRO (AP) — All roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the security ...

From biosecurity and vaccines for viruses such as polio, mpox and Ebola, to food supplies for famine-stricken countries and essential treatment for people living with HIV, a vast number of ...

Famine, according to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has already taken hold in more than 10 areas, with a further 17 reported to be on the brink of famine. Nevertheless, despite the rapidly ...

One of the casualties of suspending funding for USAID programs and threatening to shut the agency down has been FEWS NET, the global Famine Early Warning System, which I helped create 40 years ago ...

GENEVA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp in Sudan's North Darfur because of heavy fighting in the area, it said on Monday.

Sudan is in the grip of a catastrophic crisis as “bloodshed, displacement and famine are engulfing the country,” he said earlier at the opening of the latest UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva.

Rome [ENA] Twenty months into the conflict, Sudan continues to slide into a widening Famine crisis characterized by widespread starvation and a significant surge in acute malnutrition. The IPC ...