Tag: Hunger

A new United Nations report on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, has warned that twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year (2022) as delayed rains continue to worsen ...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is scaling up its response to the East African drought - the worst seen in 40 years - with $5 million to provide urgent humanitarian ...

An aid group, Save the Children, has warned that more than 80 percent of Sudan's wheat imports are at risk following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with the already worsening economic ...

Organisers of the United Nations (UN) pledging conference have said Yemen must not become a forgotten crisis behind Ukraine, warning of intense hunger if donation targets are not met. The ...

Some of the nurses and doctors helping at the biggest hospital in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region have joined to beg for food to feed themselves, one of the medic team ...

Hunger in the Arab region continues to rise, with a 91.1 percent increase since 2000, according to a new report launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

Qu Dongyu, the Director-General of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has intimated that foods that end up in loss and waste costs the global economy $400 billion. The ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$7 million from Japan to alleviate the suffering of vulnerable populations in Burkina Faso. The Government of Japan ...

The government’s total budget allocations towards the fight against hunger in the country more than doubled in 2020 as it increased significantly by GH¢650.9 million compared to 2019. This represents ...

FAO and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) have formalized their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). FAO Director-General, Dr QU Dongyu and BADEA Director-General, Mr ...