•Farmers from the rural commune of Sampona, tend to their agricultural land while awaiting the arrival of rain With scrawny arms and bellies swollen by malnutrition, a dozen children waited for a meal at a World Food Programme centre in an arid area of southern Madagascar scarred by famine and bracing for the looming El […]
•Nigeria’s escalating insecurity and looming hunger catastrophe Around 55 million people in violence-wracked west and central Africa face acute food insecurity this year and some are on the verge of famine in northern Nigeria, the United Nations said today. Violence across the region has triggered a hunger crisis that is being exacerbated by a...

