Pleas for humanitarian assistance to help the 10 million people at risk of acute hunger in
Africa's Sahel region are gaining urgency as international aid agencies struggle to keep …

Su m mary Ever since the first warnings of drought and poor harvests in Africa's Sahel region
emerged in late 2011, vulnerable communities in many areas of the region have been …

Conflicts have existed for generations worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa, conflicts occur for
various reasons, including inter-tribal or clanist tensions, resource disputes, and externally …

Nearly 13 million people in Southern Africa face extreme food shortages between now and
April 2003. Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia are particularly affected. Donor countries need to …

Though the global food crisis may be new in some countries, it is already chronic in the
African continent, where 315 million of its 900 million people live on less than $1 a day …

MOMBASA, Kenya–The United Nations on Wednesday officially declared Somalia's food
crisis a famine in several parts of the country, with millions of people on the brink of …

In mid-2011 a food emergency unfolded in the Horn of Africa. Suddenly pictures of
emaciated children were back in the media. Millions of people in East Africa are facing a …

During the past several years world attention has become riveted to the stark and startling
pictures portray ing the ravages of famine and drought in Ethiopia and other countries in Sub …

SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 (IPS)-Globally, 108 million people faced food crises
in 2016, compared to about 80 million in 2015–an increase of 35%, according to the 2017 …

In 2010, more than 10 million people, mainly women and children, were victims of the food
crisis in the Sahel. 1 Nearly 500,000 severely malnourished children were taken into care …