‘Nothing left’: A catastrophe in Madagascar’s famine-hit south
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Nothing left’: A catastrophe in Madagascar’s famine-hit south

Al Jazeera  

More than one million people need emergency food and nutrition assistance, with 14,000 already in ‘catastrophic conditions’. “There’s nothing left here where we’ve been digging,” says Rahovatae, a mother of nine, a spade in her hand in the small wood outside the village. ‘Horror film’ World Food Programme chief David Beasley has compared the plight of the starving in Madagascar to a “horror film”, saying it was “enough to bring even the most hardened humanitarian to tears”. Some 14,000 people have already reached a stage the WFP defines as level five, a “catastrophe when people have absolutely nothing left to eat,” says the organisation’s Madagascar representative Moumini Ouedraogo. President Andry Rajoelina has launched “several actions” since his 2019 election aimed at “a true transformation in the south,” his chief of staff Lova Hasinirina Ranoromaro said, adding that there is “strong political will”.

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UN food agency says 40 million people are struggling to feed themselves in West and Central Africa
5 days, 1 hour ago

UN food agency says 40 million people are struggling to feed themselves in West and Central Africa

Associated Press  

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 40 million people are now struggling to feed themselves across West and Central Africa with that number set to rise to 52 million by the middle of next year, the United Nations food agency said Friday. According to a new report released Friday, the World Food Program said 3.4 million people are currently facing “emergency …

World paid little attention to Sudan’s war for a year. Now aid groups warn of mass death from hunger
8 months, 1 week ago

World paid little attention to Sudan’s war for a year. Now aid groups warn of mass death from hunger

Associated Press  

CAIRO — On a clear night a year ago, a dozen heavily armed fighters broke into Omaima Farouq’s house in an upscale neighborhood in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. Sudan has been torn by war for a year now, ever since simmering tensions between its military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded into street clashes in the capital …

World paid little attention to Sudan's war for a year. Now aid groups warn of mass death from hunger
8 months, 1 week ago

World paid little attention to Sudan's war for a year. Now aid groups warn of mass death from hunger

The Independent  

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Gaza and Haiti are on the brink of famine, experts say. Here’s what that means
9 months ago

Gaza and Haiti are on the brink of famine, experts say. Here’s what that means

Associated Press  

Catastrophic hunger is so dire in two world hotspots that famine is imminent in northern Gaza and approaching in Haiti, with hundreds of thousands of people in both places struggling to avoid starvation. That’s according to food security experts and aid groups, who are warning about the toll from hunger caused by the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza …

Gaza and Haiti are on the brink of famine, experts say. Here's what that means.
9 months ago

Gaza and Haiti are on the brink of famine, experts say. Here's what that means.

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In Gaza, virtually every resident …

Many Haitians on brink of famine as aid dwindles amid gang violence
9 months, 1 week ago

Many Haitians on brink of famine as aid dwindles amid gang violence

LA Times  

Children wait in line to receive food at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday. He noted that Croix-des-Bouquets, in the eastern part of Haiti’s capital, “has malnutrition rates comparable with any war zone in the world.” Officials are trying to rush food, water and medical supplies to makeshift shelters and other places as …

Ethiopia’s Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray region is now peaceful, but extreme hunger afflicts its children

Associated Press  

NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia — The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia’s Tigray region who is raising four children left behind by her sister’s recent death in childbirth. Another with 1-year-old twins said she needed sachets of baby food to keep “my babies alive.” Tigray …

Millions urgently need food in Ethiopia's Tigray region despite the resumption of aid deliveries
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Millions urgently need food in Ethiopia's Tigray region despite the resumption of aid deliveries

The Independent  

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’One in ten worldwide go to bed hungry every night,’ reveals UN food chief
1 year, 3 months ago

’One in ten worldwide go to bed hungry every night,’ reveals UN food chief

Live Mint  

The head of the United Nations food agency has warned of a severe global hunger crisis affecting over 700 million people who are uncertain about when or if they will have their next meal. According to WFP estimates from 79 countries where the Rome-based agency operates, up to 783 million people — one in 10 of the world’s population — …

Lack of funding forces UN to slash food program in Haiti amid a surge in malnutrition
1 year, 5 months ago

Lack of funding forces UN to slash food program in Haiti amid a surge in malnutrition

Associated Press  

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.N.’s World Food Program announced Monday that it is facing a shortage of funds and won’t be able to help 100,000 people in Haiti this month who urgently need assistance. The 25% cut comes as a record 4.9 million people in the country of nearly 11 million need help with finding food, the agency …

UN: Millions left with no aid as West Africa suffers worst hunger crisis in 10 years
1 year, 5 months ago

UN: Millions left with no aid as West Africa suffers worst hunger crisis in 10 years

Associated Press  

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 hunger crisis in a decade. During this year’s lean season, millions of families will lack sufficient food reserves to sustain them until the next harvests in …

Millions left with no aid as West Africa suffers worst hunger crisis in 10 years, U.N. says
1 year, 5 months ago

Millions left with no aid as West Africa suffers worst hunger crisis in 10 years, U.N. says

LA Times  

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 hunger crisis in a decade. During this year’s lean season, millions of families will lack sufficient food reserves to sustain them until the next harvests in September,” said Margot …

UN agencies decry humanitarian crisis in Haiti and seek help for hungry families fleeing violence
1 year, 6 months ago

UN agencies decry humanitarian crisis in Haiti and seek help for hungry families fleeing violence

Associated Press  

JEREMIE, Haiti — The executive directors of two U.N. agencies warned Tuesday that Haiti’s humanitarian crisis has reached unprecedented levels amid reports of widespread hunger and gang violence. Per capita, the number of Haitians facing emergency-level food insecurity is the second highest in the world, with nearly 5 million struggling to eat every day, said Cindy McCain, executive director of …

Number of people facing acute hunger in Africa still alarming
1 year, 7 months ago

Number of people facing acute hunger in Africa still alarming

China Daily  

Men sit in a shade as they take care of their goats in the Dadaab refugee camp, one of Africa's largest refugee camps in Kenya, on March 23, 2023. According to the global report on food crises launched on Wednesday by the Food Security Information Network - an initiative mandated with the strengthening of food and nutrition security information system …

Number of people facing acute hunger in Africa still alarming
1 year, 7 months ago

Number of people facing acute hunger in Africa still alarming

China Daily  

Men sit in a shade as they take care of their goats in the Dadaab refugee camp, one of Africa's largest refugee camps in Kenya, on March 23, 2023. According to the global report on food crises launched on Wednesday by the Food Security Information Network - an initiative mandated with the strengthening of food and nutrition security information system …

UN: 258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022
1 year, 7 months ago

UN: 258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022

Associated Press  

ROME — More than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year because of conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to a report published Wednesday. The report found that that the number of people facing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food aid — 258 million — …

UN: Thousands in West, Central Africa could face starvation
2 years ago

UN: Thousands in West, Central Africa could face starvation

Associated Press  

DAKAR, Senegal — More than 25,000 people could face starvation in conflict-plagued parts of West Africa next year, a United Nations official warned Friday. Federico Doehnert of the World Food Program said violence and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine are largely driving the threat to people in Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso. “One …

UN: Thousands in West, Central Africa could face starvation
2 years ago

UN: Thousands in West, Central Africa could face starvation

The Independent  

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Even remote corners of Africa are feeling the costly impacts of war in Ukraine
2 years, 1 month ago

Even remote corners of Africa are feeling the costly impacts of war in Ukraine

NPR  

Even remote corners of Africa are feeling the costly impacts of war in Ukraine Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Seated on a mat in a muddy courtyard set back from a trash-strewn street, a small group of children are devouring their daily meal: a small hunk of fried bread dipped …

New report: A record 4.7 million Haitians face acute hunger
2 years, 2 months ago

New report: A record 4.7 million Haitians face acute hunger

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — A record 4.7 million people in Haiti are facing acute hunger, including 19,000 in catastrophic famine conditions for the first time, all in a slum controlled by gangs in the capital, according to a report released Friday. The U.N. World Food Program and Food and Agriculture Organization said unrelenting crises have trapped Haitians “in a cycle of …

U.N. warns up to 345 million people marching toward starvation
2 years, 3 months ago

U.N. warns up to 345 million people marching toward starvation

The Hindu  

The U.N. food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude,” with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation — and 70 million pushed closer to starvation by the war in Ukraine. “The hungry people of the world are counting on us, and … we must not let them down.” Mr. Griffiths said …

UN warns up to 345 million people marching toward starvation
2 years, 3 months ago

UN warns up to 345 million people marching toward starvation

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude,” with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation — and 70 million pushed closer to starvation by the war in Ukraine. David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, told the U.N. Security Council that the 345 …

Drought and hunger in Somalia, Ethiopia and region: What to know
2 years, 3 months ago

Drought and hunger in Somalia, Ethiopia and region: What to know

Al Jazeera  

Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are facing food shortages due to the worst drought in 40 years and rising global food costs. Millions of people are facing food insecurity, as scientists and aid groups warned that Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia could be experiencing their worst drought in 40 years this October-December with drier-than-average conditions predicted. Last month, …

‘We don’t have food’: Africa’s growing humanitarian crisis
2 years, 6 months ago

‘We don’t have food’: Africa’s growing humanitarian crisis

Al Jazeera  

Leaders urge increased mobilisation to resolve a crisis that has left more than 280 million suffering from malnourishment. Armed groups have destroyed water infrastructure in the town and lined much of Djibo’s perimeter with explosives, blockading the city, say locals. Blockading cities is a tactic used by armed groups to assert dominance and could also be an attempt to get …

UN: 18 million facing severe hunger in West Africa’s Sahel
2 years, 7 months ago

UN: 18 million facing severe hunger in West Africa’s Sahel

Associated Press  

GENEVA — The U.N. is warning that 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months, citing the impacts of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, climate-induced shocks and rising costs. The largest number of people are at risk of severe hunger across the region since 2014, and four countries — Burkina Faso, …

UN: Record Number Of People Without Enough To Eat In 2021
2 years, 7 months ago

UN: Record Number Of People Without Enough To Eat In 2021

Huff Post  

The United Nations headquarters in New York on March 17, 2022. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images ROME — The United Nations said Wednesday that the number of people without enough to eat on a daily basis reached all-time high last year and is poised to hit “appalling” new levels as the Ukraine war affects global food production. The U.N. said …

UN: ‘Extreme lack of food’ for many in Ethiopia’s Tigray
2 years, 10 months ago

UN: ‘Extreme lack of food’ for many in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Associated Press  

NAIROBI, Kenya — More than a third of the people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region “are suffering an extreme lack of food,” the United Nations World Food Program said in a new assessment of a region under a months-long government blockade. The government in part has blamed problems with aid delivery on insecurity it says is caused by Tigray forces, …

More than 1 million need urgent food aid in south Madagascar
3 years, 1 month ago

More than 1 million need urgent food aid in south Madagascar

Associated Press  

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — Parched by four years of drought, more than 1.1 million people in southern Madagascar urgently need food aid in a rapidly worsening crisis, experts warn. “Harvests fail constantly, so people don’t have anything to harvest and anything to renew their food stocks,” Alice Rahmoun, WFP’s communications officer in Madagascar said. More than 90% of the population in …

UN food agency: 45 million people on the edge of famine
3 years, 1 month ago

UN food agency: 45 million people on the edge of famine

Al Jazeera  

The UN agency says global hunger spiked by three million within a year, with conflict, climate change and COVID main driving factors. The United Nations food agency has said that the number of people on the edge of famine across 43 countries had risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world. The jump from 42 million people …

Madagascar on the brink of first climate-induced famine, UN warns
3 years, 3 months ago

Madagascar on the brink of first climate-induced famine, UN warns

Al Jazeera  

A four-year drought has pushed at least 30,000 people in southern Madagascar to level five of famine, the UN warned. The country has long been prone to droughts and floods, but this time around, a roughly four-year spell of drought has pushed at least 30,000 people to level five of famine – the highest internationally recognised level of food insecurity, …

Why has climate change caused famine in Madagascar?
3 years, 4 months ago

Why has climate change caused famine in Madagascar?

Al Jazeera  

On Wednesday, August 4 at 19:30GMT: Madagascar, the island nation off the southeast coast of Africa, is currently facing its worst drought in 40 years. That’s according to the World Food Programme who has put Madagascar in the world’s newest “highest alert” hunger hotspot list. WFP chief David Beasley compared the plight of the starving in Madagascar to a “horror …

UN warns hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots
3 years, 4 months ago

UN warns hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots

The Hindu  

Hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots in the next three months with the highest alerts for “catastrophic” situations in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, southern Madagascar, Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria, two U.N. agencies warned on Friday. The Food and Agriculture Organisation and World Food Program said in a new report on “Hunger Hotspots” between August and …

Madagascar famine becomes first in history to be caused solely by climate crisis
3 years, 5 months ago

Madagascar famine becomes first in history to be caused solely by climate crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley explained that he had met women and children who had “walked for …

UN: Madagascar droughts push 400,000 toward starvation
3 years, 5 months ago

UN: Madagascar droughts push 400,000 toward starvation

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. World Food Program says southern Madagascar is in the throes of back-to-back droughts that are pushing 400,000 people toward starvation, and have already caused deaths from severe hunger. Beasley tweeted Friday that 400,000 people are “marching towards starvation,” 14,000 are “in famine-like conditions,” and “if we do not act ASAP, the number of people facing …

350,000 people in famine conditions in Ethiopia’s Tigray
3 years, 6 months ago

350,000 people in famine conditions in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Al Jazeera  

Millions more across Tigray require urgent food and agriculture support to avert further slide towards famine, an analysis says. Some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing “catastrophic” food shortages, according to an analysis by the United Nations agencies and aid groups. “There is famine now in Tigray,” UN aid chief Mark Lowcock said after the report’s release …

'Mom, we need food': Thousands in South Sudan near famine
4 years ago

'Mom, we need food': Thousands in South Sudan near famine

The Independent  

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New report says part of South Sudan is in 'likely famine'
4 years ago

New report says part of South Sudan is in 'likely famine'

The Independent  

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In southern Madagascar, 'nothing to feed our children'
4 years ago

In southern Madagascar, 'nothing to feed our children'

The Independent  

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Extremist violence causes food shortages in north Mozambique
4 years, 3 months ago

Extremist violence causes food shortages in north Mozambique

Associated Press  

JOHANNESBURG — The escalating extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique has displaced 310,000 people, creating an urgent humanitarian crisis, the World Food Program said Tuesday. “We are deeply concerned about the unfolding humanitarian situation in Cabo Delgado where conflict and violence have left people without access to food and livelihoods,” Antonella D’Aprile, the World Food Program’s representative for Mozambique, said Tuesday. …

Poverty may hit another 49 million, says UN chief
4 years, 6 months ago

Poverty may hit another 49 million, says UN chief

Deccan Chronicle  

United Nations: Nearly 49 million more people are likely to fall into extreme poverty this year due to the COVID-19 crisis and every percentage point drop in the global GDP would mean hundreds of thousands of additional children will have stunted growth, UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned, calling on countries to act immediately to ensure global food security. Every …

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