Food Aid

In the Mudzi district, cases of malnutrition have increased by 20 percent over the past three months

Children are being deprived not only of education, but also nutrition. Governments and the international community must secure these inalienable rights

The world has become a more complicated place — that doesn’t mean your reporting has to be.

The dancer has first-hand experience of what well-meaning assistance often demands from the recipient making a compelling case for a new show

A large section of the electorate feels handouts are tantamount to vote buying – except for the perception that the practice is not that effective.

Some rain has fallen yet crop yields are still expected to be poor, but aid programmes have opened the door to a more sustainable future.

Poor nutrition not only costs individuals dearly by stunting their potential, but the country too.

Charitable bodies are reeling from the global financial crisis as donor aid slows to a trickle.

Around a million poor Zimbabweans face hunger after the UN World Food Programme announced it was cutting food rations due to a cash crunch.

Refugees at the Bangui airport camp gained some respite in the form of food, buckets and tarpaulins after supplies were cut off for three weeks.

Independent surveys have revealed partisan distribution of food relief in Zimbabwe, where more than 2.2-million people are urgently in need of food.

Finance institutions and aid groups have begun changing their focus in Africa to smaller-scale systems that help to make farmers more independent.

Al-Shabaab’s ban on one of the few agencies still operating in Somalia could deprive hundreds of thousands of people of critical food aid.

The opportunities are there and leaders must work together to make them bear fruit.

Across the Horn of Africa, a fierce drought is forcing more than 10-million people to rely on emergency food aid, up from a forecast of six-million.