KABUL, Afghanistan, December 27, 2025 (ENS) – Food insecurity threatening lives and livelihoods is on the rise in Afghanistan as winter closes in. More than 17 million Afghans are starving in freezing temperatures as the scale and severity of hunger and malnutrition deepens, warns the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization. […]
ISTANBUL, Turkiye, July 23, 2023 (ENS) – Intensifying the food insecurity across much of Africa, the Russian government is weaponizing food in its war on Ukraine. Moscow pulled out of the Black Sea Grain deal last week and is now warning that any ships traveling to Ukraine’s Black Sea ports will be seen as potentially carrying military cargoes. […]
ROME, Italy, March 13, 2022 (ENS) – While global attention is on Russia’s attack on Ukraine and its horrific humanitarian consequences there, a hidden hunger emergency is overwhelming South Sudan – an emergency intensified by the Russian bombardment of Ukraine, thousands of kilometers away. […]
KABUL, Afghanistan, October 3, 2021 (ENS) – Some 18 million Afghans are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, health services across the country are at risk of collapse and widespread hunger stalks the arid land, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, IFRC, is warning… […]
GENEVA, Switzerland, September 22, 2021 (ENS) – Forty-two companies have pledged a promising US$345 million to contribute to ending global hunger as part of a new initiative led by key international organizations. […]
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