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

The ongoing burden of rising global crises has exacerbated hunger in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, UN agencies warn. According to the UN's State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025 ...

The UN Food Systems Summit called for action on hunger in Africa, Gaza and beyond — Solan Kolli UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday said food must not be used as a weapon of war as world leaders ...

The number of hungry people around the world reduced for a third straight year in 2024. But across Africa, conflict, climate change, and economic shocks are increasing hunger and malnutrition.A global ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a regional innovation hub in Dakar to accelerate the development of sustainable ...

An estimated 8.2 percent of the global population, or about 673 million people, experienced hunger in 2024, down from 8.5 percent in 2023 and 8.7 percent in 2022. However, progress was not consistent ...

Biotech now offers solutions to hunger in Africa. The idea is to literally "weed out" hunger by eradicating the parasitic weeds that infest field crops. We are talking about at least doubling crop ...

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Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) — More than 24 million people in southern Africa face hunger, malnutrition and water scarcity due to drought and floods, an aid group has warned, as experts say the ...

America chooses to focus on "the starving children in Africa" instead of focusing on the children starving within its own ...

The crisis stretches across eight nations, including Gambia and Chad. May 29, 2012 — -- According to the United Nations, the Sahel region of West Africa, which stretches across eight countries ...

Driven by fear, hunger and thirst, 24-year-old Habiba and her four children crossed the border to safety in southern Chad late one afternoon in May, ending a harrowing three-month trek through the ...