For months, U.N. officials, aid groups and experts have warned that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are on the brink of famine without formally declaring one. Even though Israel eased a 2 1/2-month ...

The world promised “never again.” Yet children are starving in Gaza and Sudan today. At least 132,000 children under five in Gaza are at risk of death from acute malnutrition. The famine ...

Nearly five months after the start of the war, Gazans are despairing at the little humanitarian aid entering the coastal territory - Copyright AFP Mahmud HAMS Nearly ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - The war in Sudan and restrictions on aid deliveries have caused famine in at least one site in North Darfur, and have likely led to famine conditions in other parts of the conflict ...

Drought is caused by a lack of rainfall, causing serious water shortages. It can be fatal. Droughts can be triggered by natural causes and by human activity. The IRC is delivering life-saving support ...

The leading international authority on food crises said Tuesday that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza.” It predicted “widespread death” without immediate action. The ...

MEKELE, Ethiopia -- She was famine's poster child -- a 3-year-old Ethiopian girl snatched from death and gazing at the world through exhausted eyes, her emaciated body wrapped in a white burial shroud ...

Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

1 in 11 people globally go hungry. Malnutrition causes nearly half of child deaths worldwide, yet most kids go untreated. The IRC delivers lifesaving nutrition services in 21 countries. Support the ...

Famine has spread to two regions of war-torn Sudan, including a major city in Darfur where paramilitary fighters have been rampaging, a global hunger monitoring group said Monday, as the war has ...