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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The report urged the international community to provide aid in the short term to countries in need, but also invest in agriculture and other related sectors ...

A new, interactive digital report launched today shows that the number of hungry people in Africa continues to rise, spurred by conflict, climate change and economic slowdowns including those ...

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 ...