Africa famine

USA

Bleak picture of world as UN asks for more aid money than ever

The United Nations has asked for a record amount of money to cope with looming climate-change-induced famines in Africa and the devastating Ukraine war.

01/12/2022

World News

Famine in East Africa to cause one death every 36 seconds, Oxfam warns

Aid organizations and the UN are calling for urgent famine relief in East Africa as the people of Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia confront their worst drought in 40 years.

15/10/2022

Green News

The five regions facing conflict over water in the next 12 months

Researchers have developed a tool to predict which areas of the world will face conflict as water supplies diminish.

13/09/2022

World News

Euroviews. Blinkered by Ukraine, world waits for African children to die | View

With 1.8 million children's lives in danger and only a 'tiny, shrinking window' to prevent disaster, the G7 and international community must act, says Rania Dagash of UNICEF.

24/06/2022

World News

Euroviews. Don't let Ukraine war eclipse other humanitarian crises | View

Wealthy countries in Europe are using Ukrainian refugees as a pretext to cut their aid budgets just when they're needed most, warns Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

01/06/2022

Ethiopia

UN warns of escalating famine in Ethiopia with 1.8m at risk

The UN says the conflict over Tigray in Ethiopia is escalating a humanitarian crisis with 1.8m people at risk of famine

03/07/2021

World News

Euroviews. Faced with the worsening climate crisis, agriculture investment is more important than ever ǀ View

As CTA enters the final year of its mandate, food systems and agriculture are once again under the spotlight as the climate emergency becomes increasingly urgent. At the same time, we begin the 10-year countdown to the delivery of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

17/02/2020

World

Niger: Mothers 'best asset' for early diagnosis of child malnutrition

In partnership with The European Commission

38,000 children under the age of five-years-old are estimated to die every year from causes linked to malnutrition

31/10/2019

Europe News

More than 113 million people face acute hunger

More than 113 million people face acute hunger

04/04/2019

World News

After cyclone Idai, Mozambique needs help from the World Food Program

After cyclone Idai's devastating action, Mozambique has become another setting for the United Nations' World Food Program's relief operations

02/04/2019

Central African Republic

Central African Republic famine: "This is the most dangerous place in the world for children"

Six years of civil war between Muslim rebels and Christian militias has left CAR's children in a desperate state. In this special edition of Insight for Euronews, NBC's Cynthia Mcfadden ventures into the war-torn country to see the humanitarian crisis for herself. To watch this spec

07/03/2019

Yemen

Millions could die in Yemen - UN

The country is facing a devastating famine unless the current air, sea and land blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition is lifted.

09/11/2017

Democratic Republic Of Congo

Thousands of DRC children at immediate risk of starvation, UN warns

The World Food Programme says a looming humanitarian catastrophe could cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of youngsters within months.

31/10/2017

Somalia

One of the 'worst droughts in living memory' - two years without rain in Baidoa, Somalia is affecting millions

27/08/2017

Somalia

Euroviews. Lobster in the Time of Famine: view

‘How can we be eating lobster, when only 200 kilometres away, in the last 48 hours, 100 people died of starvation?’.

14/06/2017

Somalia

Somaliland on the brink of famine, warn NGOs

Over 80 percent of livestock has disappeared from several areas of Somaliland: killed by a drought which has hit the autonomous region in northern Somalia.

01/05/2017

Yemen

UNICEF warns that Yemen's children are paying the heaviest price for living life in a war zone

The future has never been so bleak for the children of Yemen.

28/03/2017

World News

UN warning about "largest humanitarian crisis" since its creation

There's mounting concern about famine in Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen and Nigeria

11/03/2017

Kenya

Drought in Kenya a catastrophe waiting to happen, warns UN

An SOS has been sent out by the UN over the growing threat posed by a drought in Kenya.

03/03/2017

South Sudan

Thousands in famine-struck South Sudan forced to eat wild plants

Thousands of families caught up in South Sudan’s famine are hiding from marauding gunmen in the swamps and islands of the River Nile.

27/02/2017