In this fact sheet, we will look at the history of hunger in Africa and current trends, review the unique characteristics and challenges of each of the five subregions, discuss why hunger is so persistent on the continent, and touch on some of the solutions that are making a difference.
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NAIROBI, KENYA — When Kenya's grand coalition government formed last year – a kind of forced marriage of bitter political enemies – Kenyan voters had high hopes for what their new government had vowed to achieve: rewrite the country's constitution, begin land reform, arrest perpetrators of pos...
Ninety-year-old Mary Mwelu sits forlornly outside her daughter-in-law's home in Makueni district, eastern Kenya, wondering when and where her next meal will come from. She last had some food - porridge - two days ago. ...
Ethiopia's parliament has passed a controversial bill imposing tight restrictions on aid agencies. Foreign agencies are prohibited from a number of areas including human rights, equality, conflict resolution and the rights of children. ...
Guinea worm disease may be eliminated within two years, former US president and anti-disease campaigner Jimmy Carter has said....
The port city of Douala is still a major hub for international food aid heading to Chad and Central African Republic, but the World Food Programme (WFP) in Cameroon is buying an increasing amount of its requirements locally. Of the 70,000mt of food aid WFP’s regional office in Cameroon is forwa...
The World Bank has cancelled an oil pipeline deal with Chad after a dispute with the government over failed pledges to use profits to tackle poverty....
Distributing anti-retroviral drugs in Malawi has led to a huge fall in Aids-related deaths, an official says. Mary Shawa told the Reuters news agency that 67% of those taking the ARV drugs are still alive. ...
When Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki signed a peace deal on 27 February, ending Kenya's post-election violence, people took to the streets to celebrate. The agreement, hammered out by Kofi Annan after weeks of political wrangling, paved the way for a grand coalition government. It was a br...
KONSO, Ethiopia — Once, the farmers walked for hours to bring their sorghum and maize here to market. These days they trod the same paths, parched grass crunching underfoot, to carry their starving children to a feeding clinic. ...
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