Africa
Scale of Yemen famine was ‘initially underestimated’ by aid agencies
Sources say soaring food prices have overtaken projections from UN general assembly two weeks ago, with up to 14 million people now at risk....
Ebay against hunger
A new app supports crop sales for rural smallholder farmers in Zambia. Smallholder farmers around the world are often forced to sell their harvests below market value due to a lack of market and pricing information. A new app by the U...
Hunger, disease and violence: Is Somalia the worst place in the world to be a child?
Malnutrition is the biggest killer of children in Somalia, usually not because they starve to death but because their bodies are so emaciated their immune systems become too weak to fend off disease....
Hunger and fighting persist despite ‘peace’ in South Sudan
Harvests and markets have been disrupted by the 5-year-long war and people rely on aid agencies for deliveries of life-saving food. Last year a man-made famine was declared in two opposition areas while the latest assessment, issued Friday, found that 6.1 million people are going hungry....
Kenya: Govt takes over responsibility from WFP to provide school meals
Some 1.6 million pupils at more than 4,000 schools will each receive a hot lunch daily under the school meals program this year – now all financed by the Government of Kenya. ...
Insurgents’ attacks lead to food shortage in northern Mozambique: report
Sporadic attacks by insurgents in the northern province Cabo Delgado in Mozambique combined with the El Nino phenomenon have caused food shortages, according to a report released Monday here by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network....
More Women Owning Agricultural Land in Africa Means Increased Food Security and Nutrition
Despite women being key figures in agriculture and food security, gender inequality is holding back progress towards ending hunger, poverty, and creating sustainable food systems. During a high-level event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, th...
Escalating Humanitarian Crisis And Apprehension Over Food Insecurity
In northeast Nigeria, the majority of internally displaced persons were suffering from food insecurity. Reporter Chika Okeke examines the level of humanitarian crisis in the north- east and reports that without harmonised intervention, famine might wipe out surviving locals and residents...
Rising obesity in Africa reflects a broken global food system
When I visited Kigali, Rwanda’s capital last week, I noticed an array of new fast food restaurants downtown. This is not an exception — chains such as Burger King, Pizza Hut and KFC are proliferating across Africa. Meanwhile, obesity rates are skyrocketing across the continent....
Extreme Poverty Concentrates in Sub-Saharan Africa
The number of people living in extreme poverty is becoming concentrated in some of the most unstable and populous parts of Africa, raising the risk of political violence and devastating disease outbreaks....
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