Tag: famine

World Food Programme (WFP) has said that funding cuts will worsen a deepening hunger crisis around the world. In its 2026 Global Outlook report released today, the UN agency noted ...

UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has warned that the war in Sudan is “spiraling out of control” after a paramilitary force seized the Darfur city of el-Fasher. Speaking on the sidelines of the ...

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the leading international authority on hunger crises, has disclosed that famine has been detected in el-Fasher in Darfur and Kadugli town in South ...

A UN Commission of Inquiry has concluded for the first time that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The report, described as the “most authoritative UN finding to ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk has stated that the famine declared today in Gaza Governorate by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the "direct result ...

The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has confirmed famine in Gaza. The UN classification system for monitoring world hunger and food security has raised its classification to Phase ...

Sudan’s conflict has taken another deadly turn after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a violent assault on a famine-stricken displacement camp near el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur ...

US Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff and US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee visited the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution site in Rafah on Friday, August 1, 2025, to inspect ...

Philippe Lazzarini, the Head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), has reacted to the IPC famine alert, saying in a post on X, that the famine in Gaza ...

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has issued an alert, saying, "the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip." The alert from the UN-backed ...