After four consecutive failed rainy seasons, harvests in East Africa have become so barren that one person is likely to die every 36 seconds from hunger, according to a new report about acute food ...

A lack of political will means hunger is still the cause of almost half of all child deaths in Africa, despite an economic boom on the continent, a new think tank report has found. What does Russia ...

Africa’s most populous nation was already facing one of the world’s biggest hunger crises. It’s getting much worse.

Food insecurity is an escalating crisis on the African continent. Many of its most vulnerable people are reliant on emergency aid, which does little to address the systemic causes of widespread hunger ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Conflict, climate change and rising food and fuel prices are pushing about a quarter of Africans towards hunger, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — The U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday that millions of hungry people in West Africa are without aid as the agency struggles with limited funding to respond to the region’s worst ...

JOHANNESBURG — The United Nations World Food Programme said on Thursday that a record 45 million people in the 16-nation Southern African Development Community faced growing hunger following repeated ...

An elderly woman holds a box with food donations given by Team Pankaj aid group, distributed for people in need in the capital's poorest neighbourhoods, in the Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya, April ...