famine

UN agencies warn Somalia near full-blown famine

Published on: December 13, 2022
17:04

Mogadishu, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) More than 200,000 Somalis are currently suffering catastrophic food shortages and many are dying of hunger, with that number set to rise to over 700,000 next year, according to an analysis by an alliance of U.N. agencies and aid groups.

UK announces new aid for people facing famine in Horn of Africa

Published on: September 21, 2022
17:35

London, Sep 21 (Prensa Latina) The UK Development Minister Vicky Ford has announced a new £22.8 million (.8 million) package of aid for people affected by the worst drought in decades in the Horn of Africa.

UN urges pressing support to scale up life-saving aid in Somalia

Published on: September 8, 2022
19:12

United Nations, Sep 8 (Prensa Latina) UN Secretary-General (UNSG) António Guterres on Thursday reiterated the pressing need for a speedy scale-up of humanitarian life-saving assistance in Somalia, where hundreds of thousands of people are at immediate risk of famine.

UN chief warns about risk of multiple famines in 2022

Published on: July 8, 2022
17:58

United Nations, Jul 8 (Prensa Latina) UN Secretary-General (UNSG) António Guterres on Friday warned of real risk of multiple famines in 2022, with possibility to worsen in 2023 due to the increased food and fertilizer prices.

Nearly half of the Afghan population faces acute hunger

Published on: May 10, 2022
08:33

United Nations, May 10 (Prensa Latina) Almost half of the population of Afghanistan, over 19 million people, will face acute hunger, according to a report by various UN agencies.

IOM calls for measures to fight off famine in the Horn of Africa

Published on: April 9, 2022
11:00

United Nations, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) Over 15 million people could be suffering from famine by mid-2022 due to a serious humanitarian situation caused by drought in the Horn of Africa, a UN agency said on Saturday.

Millions of people in Afghanistan on the brink of famine

Published on: October 27, 2021
00:15

Kabul, Oct 27 (Prensa Latina) Afghanistan is on the brink of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, United Nations agencies have warned, while more than half of the population faces an acute food shortage.

Climate change threatens Madagascar with famine

Published on: October 22, 2021
10:43

Antananarivo, Oct 22 (Prensa Latina) Severe drought in Madagascar could spur world's first climate change famine, according to an official of the World Food Program (WFP).

Starvation, hunger-related deaths a reality amid food crisis

Published on: October 5, 2021
07:46

United Nations, Oct 5 (Prensa Latina) With some of the world's worst food crises in recent years impacting tens of millions of people, there is an urgent need for specifically targeted funding for emergency livelihoods assistance and to build resilience, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Madagascar is prone to the first famine due to climate change

Published on: August 31, 2021
02:15

Antananarivo, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) Madagascar is going through its worst drought in the last 40 years and is prone to suffer a famine of catastrophic proportions, according to the report of a specialized UN agency circulated here on Monday.

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