Conflict and Famine
Ethiopia’s Decades-Long Malnutrition Crises
June 16,2026 In Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country, roughly one in eight Ethiopians suffer food shortages in mid-2026 in many region-specific overlapping crises caused by fighting, drought, population displacements, refugees, sky-high prices, and sudden cuts in international a...
Most of Yemen is Now Hungry, UN Declares
June 17, 2026 Yesterday, the UN was advised that the extent of food insecurity in Yemen had ratcheted up further: "The hunger crisis in Yemen is worsening sharply, with the share of people unable to meet basic food needs rising from about half to nearly 60 percent within a month," UN Under-Se...
Strait of Hormuz Fertilizer Disruptions and Increases of Malnutrition Risk Worldwide
June 4, 2026 News Analysis by Rohma Akhtar The Middle East war continues to disrupt ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz affecting shipments of urea, sulfur and phosphates for fertilizer. As predicted, aid agencies are reporting increases in malnutrition as a result. As reported here, in...
New Lancet Commission Report about Health, Conflict & Forced Displacement
May 21, 2026 The new study, Health in a World of Crises and Impunity, by the Johns Hopkins - Lancet Commission about Health, Conflict & Forced Displacement, was published this week in the Lancet Journal, with two dozen main authors (commission members), led by Dr. Paul Spiegel. It criti...
Hunger Crisis in Myanmar/Burma
May 2, 2026 According to the latest Hunger Hotspots Report, 16.7 million people, or one in three citizens of Myanmar (also known as Burma), are acutely food insecure, a sharp increase from 13.3 million in 2024. Myanmar now ranks fifth globally for the highest number of people facing severe ...
Hunger in Haiti
April 28, 2026: Over the last six years, the food crisis in Haiti has grown steadily worse. In 2019–2020, around 3.7 million Haitians were in food insecurity (IPC) Phase 3 or above. By 2022–2023, that was approaching 4.7 million, nearly half the population. The most recent UN Integrated ...
New Global Report on Food Crises, 2026
April 26, 2026 The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), jointly published on April 24 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the Global Network Against Food Crises, estimates that some 35.5 million children were acutely malnourished across 23 nutriti...
Further Increases of Starvation in Darfur, Sudan
April 12, 2026 The arid, poor, western region of Sudan, called Darfur, has been a complex emergency for twenty-three years, with mass displacement and an increasing problem of starvation and malnutrition. Aid to prevent starvation is prevented by the inability of aid agencies to reach those in nee...
Increased Hunger and Conflict in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is currently facing a severe food insecurity crisis driven by several compounding factors. According to the UNHCR, in 2025, both Pakistan and Iran tightened their migration policies, forcing large numbers of Afghan refugees to return to Afghanistan. The Pakistan–Afghanistan border ha...
Threat of Child Malnutrition in Iran Amid U.S.–Iran Conflict
February 28, 2026 The U.S.–Iran war that began today, 28 February 2026, threatens to sharply worsen malnutrition among children under five in low-income urban neighborhoods of strike zones (Tehran, Isfahan, Kermanshah) and in rural border provinces (e.g., Sistan-Baluchestan and Kurdistan...
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