"We are trying to help prevent a famine from occurring," Stephen Anderson, Yemen country director for the World Food Programme (WFP), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday... READ MORE›
Ship carrying 25,000 tonnes of desperately needed wheat docks in the Houthi-held port of Saleef in western Yemen... READ MORE›
The three-year project will enable WFP to support refugees in Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan... READ MORE›
Officials say the number of people displaced by conflict has nearly doubled in the past six months to 1.5 million... READ MORE›
The head of the UN food agency has appealed for aid to avert a humanitarian crisis in the conflict-wracked DR Congo province of Kasai... READ MORE›
The international community must rally," David Beasley, head of the UN's World Food Programme, said after observing a handout of food to refugees at Kutupalong camp, near Cox's Bazar... READ MORE›
We need 75 million for the next six months," David Beasley, WFP executive director, told reporters after visiting refugee camps in Bangladesh near the Myanmar border... READ MORE›
The movement of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh is an exodus of vast proportions that has bewildered even the most seasoned aid workers, writes Nahlah Ayed... READ MORE›
The Russian defence ministry said Russian air forces carry out pinpoint strikes only on IS targets that have been observed and confirmed through several channels... READ MORE›
There are fewer chronically undernourished people worldwide than in 2000, but a trend of overall decline has been reversed, according to a United Nations report... READ MORE›
The world is caught up in the Trump saga and ignoring a famine that could affect 20 million people in four countries... READ MORE›
The drought is the first crisis for Somalias newly elected Somali-American leader, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed... READ MORE›
Rakhine state is where the country's Muslim Rohingya minority group has allegedly faced systematic persecution since unrest broke out in 2012... READ MORE›
A 26 year-old bodyboarder was attacked by a shark while bodyboarding in a dangerous water area on February 21, 2017 off Saint-Andre... READ MORE›
The hurricane, which hit Haiti on Tuesday, brought 145mph winds and torrential rains that destroyed more than 3,200 homes, displaced 15,000 people, ruined plantations and drowned animals... READ MORE›
Yemen had one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world before the current conflict, according to the WFP... READ MORE›
A 26 year-old bodyboarder was attacked by a shark while bodyboarding in a dangerous water area on February 21, 2017 off Saint-Andre... READ MORE›
Saudi Arabia alone should fund all steps to tackle widespread disease and hunger in war-torn Yemen, a top UN official has said... READ MORE›
In South Sudan, the United Nations says that 2,800 people are fleeing worsening violence and looming famine every day... READ MORE›
'They sleep when they're too hungry' South Sudanese trapped by war, famine grow increasingly desperate... READ MORE›
6 million Syrian refugees because of a funding crisis... READ MORE›
One in 10 people living in rural areas suffers from acute hunger, while chronic malnutrition affects 43 per cent of children under five years, the FAO report said... READ MORE›
Such attacks are becoming increasingly common in the areas bordering Boko Haram's base in northeastern Nigeria... READ MORE›
But Maj Gen Leo Irabor, who leads the military operation against Boko Haram in the region, said hunger in the Bama camp was relative ... READ MORE›
Jordan hosts about 630,000 Syrian refugees, including more than half a million in communities and the rest in camps... READ MORE›
The world's largest humanitarian agency delivers food and other relief supplies to about 80 million people in more than 80 countries every year... READ MORE›
UN says 14 million people face starvation because of reduced food production, blamed on El Nino weather pattern... READ MORE›
Aid agencies said 100,000 people were affected by the famine, which threaten to affect a further one million people in the coming months... READ MORE›
Inefficient food production means that large parts of the North Korean population face malnutrition or death... READ MORE›
One year into South Sudan's new transitional government, Juba is still struggling to cope with insecurity, poverty and conflict... READ MORE›
More than one million people fled their homes in Mosul and nearby villages since the fighting started... READ MORE›
Tin Maung Swe, secretary of the Rakhine state government, confirmed that workers have refused to work for the WFP... READ MORE›
Monday's aid delivery was the first allowed into Madaya since mid-October, when the UN's World Food Programme took a month's supply of food rations for 20,000 people... READ MORE›
In July this year, the WFP announced that it would have to halve the value of food vouchers given to Syrian refugees in Lebanon... READ MORE›
Refugee crisis The grim reality faced by the Syrian refugees stranded in Lebanon... READ MORE›
A 26 year-old bodyboarder was attacked by a shark while bodyboarding in a dangerous water area on February 21, 2017 off Saint-Andre... READ MORE›
Debris is scattered along the shoreline of Les Cayes, nearly a week after Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti, leaving an estimated 1,000 people dead and thousands more homeless... READ MORE›
WFP campaign allows app users to provide 2,000 vulnerable women and babies with vital nutrition in Syrian city of Homs... READ MORE›
Zimbabwes economy has been on a downward spiral for more than a decade with slow growth, low liquidity and high unemployment... READ MORE›
Opposition activists in Syria have told the BBC that people are dying of starvation in the government-besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus... READ MORE›
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