Famine
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WFP warned that cuts could bring 24 million people to the verge of famine
Sep 12, 2023The World Food Programme warned that 24 million more people risked being driven to the point of starvation because of the significant reduction in financing that was causing it to drastically cut rations in several programs.... -
Tigray conflict of Ethiopia resulted in a famine affecting more than 400,000 people, UN warns
Jul 3, 2021Recent fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has resulted in a famine that is now affecting more than 400,000 people, UN officials say. In its first public meeting on the crisis, members of the UN... -
Window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing, UN agencies warn
Dec 5, 2020The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN World Food... -
Action needed to save lives in Somalia
May 12, 2017News Hour: WHO is concerned by the chronic shortage of funding for life-saving work in Somalia in response to the ongoing drought that has plunged the country further towards famine, disease, and health insecurity. Drought in... -
As famine looms, malnutrition and disease rise sharply among children in Somalia
Mar 31, 2017News Hour: As the spectre of famine hangs once again over Somalia, early numbers show an increasing number of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and cholera or acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) — a combination... -
27 million people lack safe water in countries facing or at risk of famine
Mar 29, 2017News Hour: Water shortages, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene practices and disease outbreaks are posing an additional threat to severely malnourished children in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, UNICEF said today. Across the four famine-threatened... -
Time is running out for children as famine, drought and war threaten millions
Mar 29, 2017News Hour: More than a month after famine was declared in South Sudan, time is running out for more than a million children as drought and armed conflict devastate lives in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan...
