THE climate and food security crisis remains critical in southern Africa with more than 26 million people food insecure in ...

Eastern Africa is a region of stark contrasts, where immense potential coexists with pressing challenges. On one hand, it ...

(CAPE TOWN, South Africa) — Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region's worst ...

Africa, which is home to roughly two-thirds of people living with HIV, is poised to surpass Asia as the continent with the ...

"Catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity" bordering on starvation are expected to impact hundreds of thousands of people ...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Kenya's President William Ruto and several other leaders admitted that one of the ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently appealing to donors to provide early funding for next year's operations in South Sudan so the food agency can preposition food to prevent ...

LAGOS, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Nigeria faces one of its worst hunger crises with more than 30 million people ... costs," a ...

DUBAI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Sudan’s sovereign council said on Wednesday it would extend the use of the Adre border crossing ...

Zambia and Zimbabwe — have declared national disasters over the drought and resultant hunger. The WFP estimates that about 21 million children in southern Africa are now malnourished as crops ...

El Niño led to below-average rainfall across the region, while its impact has been exacerbated by warming temperatures linked to climate change. A man stands in a sun-baked dried up watering hole ...