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The skies over Sudan are pregnant with the promise of rain, but for millions, this is not a promise of life, but a chilling harbinger of death. The guns have fallen silent only in their ability to drown out the cries of the starving, the hollow coughs of children whose bellies are swollen with emptiness. […]
Salva Kiir and Riek Machar hold the nation’s fate in their hands. Again
Zimbabwe, once regarded as the breadbasket of Southern Africa exporting agricultural produce to the region and beyond, is on the verge of famine and chronic malnutrition is endemic throughout the country. Unlike other countries, where food insecurity is viewed as mostly a rural problem, Zimbabwe has a history of food security issues in the urban […]
Sixty percent of of Zimbabweans face acute food insecurity — about 5.5 million in rural areas and 2.2 million in urban areas
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Without more aid and a ceasefire to let farmers reach fields, the UN says there will be a "catastrophic decline in food security" in South Sudan.
Zimbabwe’s Agriculture Minister Joseph Made says that imported maize is being handed out to vulnerable people in a bid to stave of famine.
Sub-Saharan Africa posts economic growth rates higher than the worldwide average but has the planet’s greatest food security problems, the UN says.
Although food prices have continued to rise, riots because of this fact have been almost non-existent as people have generally suffered in silence.
The UN says that Somalia’s famine is over, but warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.
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/ 5 September 2011
Famine has spread to another Somali region and the UN has warned more areas will become affected in the next four months.
Amid UN reports that famine has spread further through Somalia, South Africa has been criticised for not doing enough to help the region.
Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab rebels in Somalia will accept help from relief groups, lifting the two year ban on foreign aid.
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/ 14 September 2010
The number of undernourished people around the world has declined by nearly 10% in the last year, the UN food agency said on Tuesday.
In a disaster predicted months ago by aid agencies, Africa’s Sahel region is lurching towards a food crisis which the world has only weeks to avert.
Six months after the elections, Zimbabwe still lacks a functioning government and is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.
South African farmers will help rebuild Zimbabwean agriculture if the new government can resuscitate the stagnant sector.
Five million people will need help within months, warns the UN. Families flee as many are reduced to one meal a day, writes Chris McGreal.
Soaring food prices are threatening to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in East Africa, where people are struggling to afford basic food.
Millions are threatened with starvation after the failure of the harvest brought on by the government’s mishandling of land redistribution.
Attacks on aid workers in Somalia and disruptions to food shipments are threatening the lives of millions, the UN food agency warned on Friday.
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/ 13 October 2004
Famine in Africa could worsen unless action is taken to tackle the continent’s HIV/Aids pandemic, according to a senior United Nations official.