The time to step up is now” for the people of Somalia, where drought threatens 1.7 million young children at risk of acute malnutrition, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday.

She said children under the age of five are particularly at risk, with more than 1.3 million living in five famine hotspots in the country, and another 3 million at risk of diseases including ...

Sudan is now the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned ...

where drought threatens 1.7 million young children at risk of acute malnutrition, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday. The East African country faced famine in 2022, but a scale-up ...

In southern Africa, an estimated 9 million people, half of them children, need help in Malawi ... said the WFP's Erdelmann. USAID's Famine Early Warning System estimated that 20 million people ...

The country is on the verge of a 2022 famine, which, according to UN data, killed thousands of people, nearly half of whom were children.

Some 30 million people in Sudan need aid, says UN Famine in at least five locations in Sudan, says UNICEF Hundreds of ...

GENEVA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp ... treated thousands of malnourished children. "Despite widespread starvation ...

Airdrops like this are a slender life line in a rugged and inhospitable region where famine has already been ... malnutrition is all around, with children especially hard hit.