The mass starvation in Gaza has called into question how famine is defined and measured. On Aug 22, 2025, the Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ...

Recent global crises have exposed the limits of a universal mortality threshold for declaring famine-an approach that can obscure how famine actually unfolds across different populations. In a paper ...

STORY: "It is a famine that hits the most vulnerable first..." Famine has formally been declared in parts of Gaza, almost two years since Israel's invasion. And critically low supplies of fortified ...

Relentless violence, famine and disease are fuelling a rising death toll among children in Sudan, while attacks on healthcare ...

PORT SUDAN, (December 24, 2024) – The lives of hundreds of thousands of children are hanging in the balance with new data showing famine has spread to additional areas of Sudan after 20 months of ...

In East Africa, three years of a catastrophic drought have affected 40 million people and caused the highest rates of acute malnutrition on record. Other countries and regions around the world, ...

In Umm Baru, nearly 53% of children ages 6 months to nearly 5 years suffered from acute malnutrition, while 32% of children ...

GAZA CITY/GENEVA/CAIRO (Reuters) -The hunger crisis in Gaza is at a tipping point, with critically low supplies of fortified milk and special nutritious pastes exacerbating food shortages and pushing ...

Residents of the Gaza Strip have described to the BBC the effects that a lack of food is having on their bodies, after a UN-backed report confirmed famine in the territory for the first time. Reem ...

News One is reporting that the drought and famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5, according to U.S. estimates, the first time such a precise death toll has been ...

By Olivia Le Poidevin and Nafisa Eltahir GENEVA/CAIRO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Acute malnutrition has reached famine levels in two ...

Since April 2023, Sudan has been in the throes of war after a power struggle erupted between the military and the powerful ...