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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) With famine confirmed in the Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur, there are growing concerns that similar crises may be unfolding in other nearby camps, an official with the UN emergency food relief agency (WFP) said on Wednesday, in an interview with UN News

©- - 08 august 2024 - 07:07:04 - thread (598 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Famine is now prevalent in areas of war-torn Sudan and will continue through the next two months, according to a new global food insecurity report released on Thursday

©- - 02 august 2024 - 05:35:15 - thread (608 words)



Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Famine Review Committee (FRC) of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Thursday concluded that famine conditions are prevalent in parts of North Darfur, including the Zamzam camp south of El Fasher

©- - 01 august 2024 - 18:30:42 - thread (246 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The risk of widespread famine in Sudan caused by war there was confirmed on Thursday by leading hunger experts who warned that the country faces “the worst levels of acute food insecurity ever recorded”, with no less than 14 areas at the highest level of risk

©- - 27 june 2024 - 15:31:53 - thread (789 words)


Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - Famine is fast approaching in Somalia and more than 700,000 people could face starvation next year, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned on Tuesday, citing the latest Integrated Food Security Phase (IPC) analysis

©- - 20 december 2022 - 16:55:50 - thread (679 words)


Mogadishu, Somalia (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme  (WFP) is delivering life-saving food and nutrition assistance to record numbers of people in Somalia, with over four million people a month receiving urgent humanitarian support to prevent famine in the face of the region’s worst drought in over 40 years

©- - 20 october 2022 - 12:33:30 - thread (426 words)


Rome, Italy (PANA) - Rising acute food insecurity in Somalia has caused more than 900,000 people to flee their homes in search of humanitarian assistance since January last year, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned

©- - 06 august 2022 - 05:18:09 - thread (555 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Monday that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine in 43 countries, has risen to 45 million - up by three million this year - as acute hunger spikes around the world

©- - 08 november 2021 - 05:10:05 - thread (419 words)


Washington, DC, United States, (PANA) - The number of people facing famine-like conditions worldwide has increased six-fold over the last year, a report released by the anti-poverty organization, Oxfam, said here Friday in a statement

©- - 09 july 2021 - 21:11:16 - thread (360 words)


Rome, Italy (PANA) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday warned that famine – already present in four countries – could become a reality for millions of people around the world, without urgent funding to stave off a catastrophe, and without access to families cut-off by conflict

©- - 22 june 2021 - 15:50:51 - thread (435 words)


Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - With more than a million people facing hunger due to the devastating famine currently ravaging southern Madagascar, donors, foreign governments and regional leaders must ramp up aid efforts to avert a potential human rights crisis, Amnesty International appealed on Friday

©- - 21 may 2021 - 10:20:52 - thread (564 words)


Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

©- - 30 april 2021 - 05:31:07 - thread (478 words)


New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations released US$100 million of emergency funding on Tuesday to stave off the risk of famine in seven countries most at risk from a hunger epidemic, fuelled by conflict, economic decline, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic

©- - 17 november 2020 - 19:57:56 - thread (454 words)


New York, US (PANA) – UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, on Wednesday allocated US$45 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to immediately scale up food and nutrition assistance, safe water provision, livelihoods protection, and other urgent humanitarian support to drought-affected people across parts of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya who are facing acute food problems following another season off ailed rains

©- - 05 june 2019 - 17:48:13 - thread (671 words)


Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - The United-Nations have warned that about seven million people in South Sudan live in severe food insecurity because of the deficit recorded in rains this season
©- - 24 february 2019 - 20:49:59 - thread (136 words)


New York, USA (PANA) – Famine can constitute a war crime or crime against humanity, an independent United Nations human rights expert on Monday said, noting that more civilians die from hunger and disease related to conflicts than in direct combat
©- - 24 october 2017 - 04:28:09 - thread (370 words)


New York, US (PANA) – Expressing grave concern about the threat of famine facing some 20 million people in conflict-affected Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and northeast Nigeria, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday requested the Secretary-General to provide early warning when a conflict could lead to famine
©- - 09 august 2017 - 18:03:06 - thread (297 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is pushing forward with a massive campaign that has so far treated more than 12 million animals in less than three months, protecting the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of families who rely on their livestock's meat and milk for survival
©- - 02 june 2017 - 11:28:53 - thread (471 words)


Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - All parties to the conflict in South Sudan must cease violence and work together to ensure that food and other life-saving support can reach the people and end famine and severe hunger, the heads of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday
©- - 24 may 2017 - 14:16:34 - thread (1028 words)


Rome, Italy (PANA) - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is further scaling up its activities in drought affected regions of Somalia thanks to a US$22 million loan approved this week by the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), which complements the loans already provided by FAO's Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities
©- - 21 march 2017 - 16:19:04 - thread (421 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Just back from Kenya, Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia (countries that are facing or are at risk of famine), the top United Nations humanitarian official on Friday urged the international community for comprehensive action to save people from simply “starving to death”
©- - 11 march 2017 - 04:12:18 - thread (497 words)


New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday in Mogadishu, Somalia, urged international support to avert a famine in the drought-hit Horn of Africa country and curb the spread of cholera, as well as facilitate economic development
©- - 07 march 2017 - 15:00:50 - thread (335 words)


Juba, South Sudan (PANA) - Hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan will starve unless relief workers gain access to needy populations and more funding is raised, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator on Saturday warned after meeting malnourished children who fled the raging conflict in the country
©- - 05 march 2017 - 07:03:17 - thread (444 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The world stands on the brink of an unprecedented four famines in 2017 due to a catastrophic failure of the global community to uphold its obligations to the most vulnerable of people, humanitarian agency Oxfam International said on Friday, calling on donors to take immediate action to help as many as 20 million people now at risk of starvation
©- - 24 february 2017 - 12:54:39 - thread (749 words)


Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States says it is "gravely concerned" by the 20 February declaration of famine in parts of South Sudan and by the significant scale of humanitarian need throughout the country
©- - 22 february 2017 - 09:31:10 - thread (508 words)