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Experts said that when a famine is declared, it is usually too late. For months, humanitarian aid organizations and international bodies have warned that Gaza is facing "critical" levels of hunger and ...

The government of Sudan has not made an official declaration of famine and denies that famine exists. Aid groups are concerned that without a declaration, international resources won't be mobilized.

Famine has officially been declared in at least one refugee camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of people in the Darfur region of Sudan, food security organizations announced, a stark warning of the ...

Famine is the most severe form of acute food insecurity. How, and when, is famine declared? And what happens next? Your questions answered. On May 4, 2025, a health worker at a UNICEF-supported ...

The World Food Programme said the report “paints a stark picture of ongoing hunger” in Gaza A UN-backed assessment says almost half a million Palestinians across Gaza are still facing “catastrophic ...

The plight of herding communities facing hunger echoes Old Testament examples. “I am the father and mother of my children,” said Regina, sitting on the ground of the straw hut she built herself and ...

A famine that afflicted China between 1959 and 1961 is associated with an increased hyperglycemia risk not only among people who were born then, but also among the children they had a generation later ...

This essay is an extended version of "How Famine Changed North Korea," an oped published on the Washington Post on February 28, 2008. Its Korean translation was published on the April 2008 edition of ...

How was your local area affected by the Irish famine? Find out in new interactive map tracking population changes parish by parish. A new map developed by a researcher at Queen’s University Belfast ...