UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday said food must not be used as a weapon of war as world leaders gathered for a food summit ...

The United Nations has issued a stark warning about Africa’s deepening food crisis, revealing that more than 1 billion people ...

The U.N. food agency’s regional head says Nigeria is facing “an unprecedented hunger crisis,” and the need for food is rising ...

Wawira Njiru, Founder and CEO of Food4Education, spotlights Tap2Eat — the NFC wristband powering Kenya’s school feeding ...

The number of people facing hunger around the world is trending down again for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, ...

Despite being one of Africa's largest food producers, South Africa still struggles with hunger and malnutrition, particularly ...

Children eat porridge prepared at a feeding center in Mudzi, Zimbabwe, on July 2, 2024. In Zimbabwe, an El Nino-induced drought is affecting millions of people, and children are most at risk.

The U.N. says the drought has threatened the education of close to 2 million children in the southern African nation because of hunger and parents’ inability to pay school fees as their crops fail.

More than 45,000 children dropped out of school during the previous El Nino in the 2015-2016 farming season, 3,000 more than the annual average, it said.

Hunger in this region is a lurking predator that never quite leaves, and comes back every year to pick off the weakest. Even in a non-crisis year, some 300,000 children die from lack of food ...

Nation & World Drought threatens millions of children as school dropouts rise along with hunger in southern Africa July 19, 2024 at 1:28 am ...