Coronavirus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 child deaths each month
From Latin America to South Asia to sub-Saharan Africa, more families than ever are staring down a future without enough food.
Global aid from top donors drops as need soars amid pandemic
A new snapshot of the frantic global response to the coronavirus pandemic shows some of the world’s largest government donors of humanitarian aid are buckling under the strain: Funding commitments, for the virus and otherwise, have dropped by a third from the same period ...
Global hunger and obesity are worsening due to coronavirus fallout
Hunger and malnourishment are increasing around the world as the coronavirus crisis pushes more people into poverty and limits access to healthy diets, according to the United Nations. Almost 690 million people were undernourished last year, the most since 2009, and the pandemic could tip ...
Nepal families face hunger and skip meals as pandemic hits remittances
"I skipped several evening meals to save whatever little food I had for my daughter," said Nepali housewife Shiba Kala Limbu.
U.N. warns humanitarian logistics flights at risk due to lack of donations
The United Nations warned Friday that its humanitarian logistics flights could be largely grounded in July due to a lack of funds — severely compromising global aid operations. The World Food Programme (WFP), which runs the flight network, said that only $178 million (€159 million) ...
Pandemic risks pushing millions more into child labor, U.N. says
Millions of children could be pushed into work by the coronavirus crisis, the U.N. said Friday as it braced for the first rise in child labor in two decades. In a joint brief, the International Labour Organization and UNICEF noted that the number of children ...
Virus could double food insecurity in nine African countries, U.N. says
The spread of COVID-19 risks devastating countries across East Africa, where food insecurity could more than double in just three months, the United Nations warned Tuesday. The U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) estimates that some 20 million people currently do not have secure provisions of ...
'Hunger pandemic' fears grow as coronavirus roils world economy
The United Nations warned Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic could trigger famine in already vulnerable countries as the worldwide freeze on commerce sent shock waves through financial markets. The bleak warning came as deaths from the virus surpassed 174,000 worldwide, with governments anxiously trying to ...
Kenyans brace for second — and possibly worse — onslaught of locusts
After desert locusts invaded her farm in central Kenya, Mary Muthoni, 61, ran around her corn fields shouting and banging on an old iron sheet in a desperate attempt to drive them away. "They came here yesterday evening and sat on top of these trees ...
Somalia declares locust plague emergency, appeals for funding
Somalia declared the worst desert locust invasion in a quarter-century a national emergency that's posing a major threat to an already fragile food situation. Swarms of the insects are breeding in Djibouti, Eritrea and Sudan and have also spread to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, where ...
Nearly 700,000 people have been displaced by violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday, pointing to "worrying" cases of malnutrition and sexual violence. In a press release, it said more than 687,500 displaced people were now living in ...
More than 2.4 million people need urgent food aid across the central Sahel region, encompassing Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, where rising jihadi violence has triggered a humanitarian crisis, the U.N. said Tuesday. "If we do not act now to tackle hunger in the Sahel, ...
