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Afghan mothers seek hospital help for malnourished children

Afghan mothers seek hospital help for malnourished children

Published 193 days ago

Malnutrition having 'harrowing' impact on Afghan women: WFP

Malnutrition having 'harrowing' impact on Afghan women: WFP

Published 197 days ago

Houthis continue action on UN, detain 2 women workers; 1 lost newborn last month

The fresh detention comes just a week after the Houthis stormed the UN compound in Sanaa and detained staff.

Updated 280 days ago

UN's funding crisis: Wake-up call for global cooperation

United Nations (Getty Images via AFP)

Published 313 days ago

Africa feeding 20 million more children with school meals: World Food Programme

The region saw the biggest rise in school feeding of any region, by nearly a third to 87 million in 2024.

Updated 325 days ago

Yemen’s Houthi rebels detain at least 11 UN staff in latest crackdown

A member of security forces loyal to Yemen's Houthis stands guard during an anti-Israel, anti-US, and pro-Palestinian rally organised by the staff and students of Sanaa University in Yemen's Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa on August 27, 2025.

Updated 335 days ago

WFP warns of food crisis in Gaza as aid blockade continues amid ongoing conflict

The UN's World Food Programme issued a warning on Friday that it has run out of food supplies in war-torn Gaza, where Israel has barred humanitarian aid since March 2.

Published 463 days ago

Myanmar relief camps receive last WFP aid as cuts begin

Myanmar relief camps receive last WFP aid as cuts begin

Updated 500 days ago

Gaza humanitarian crisis could develop into famine, WFP says

Gaza humanitarian crisis could develop into famine, WFP says

Published 641 days ago

UN raises alarm over surge in malnutrition among women, children in Afghanistan

Published 854 days ago

Attempt to resume food deliveries in northern Gaza 'largely unsuccessful': WFP

TOPSHOT - Palestinian children receive cooked food rations as part of a volunteer youth initiative in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 5, 2024, amid widespread hunger in the besieged Palestinian territory as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas continues. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Published 879 days ago

Gaza civilians face 'immediate possibility of starvation': UN

A Palestinian man holds a child as he and others ride on a horse drawn cart along a wet street following overnight rainstorms in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

Updated 989 days ago

World Food Programme appeals for USD 19 mn to provide emergency food in quake-hit Afghanistan

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Published 1018 days ago

One in ten people worldwide go to bed hungry every night: UN food chief

A staggering 45 million children under the age of five are now estimated to suffer from acute malnutrition.

Published 1051 days ago

Street battles in Sudan capital as Eid ceasefire calls ignored

Women gather to pray in Port Sudan, on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Published 1198 days ago

UN's food agency suspends work in Sudan after staff killed in clashes

Smoke is seen rising from a neighborhood in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 15.

Published 1203 days ago

Sustainable agriculture, food security focus areas at G20 deputies meeting

A farm worker harvests wheat crop, at a village on the outskirts of Gurugram on March 28, 2023 (PTI)

Updated 1219 days ago

Nobel Prize-winning UN World Food Program head to step down

In March 2022, Beasley's term was extended under the Biden administration for an extra year.

Published 1322 days ago

‘61% households reduce…’: UN says 60 lakh Lankans unsure of their next meal

People wait in a line to buy domestic gas tanks near a distributor, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo.

Published 1470 days ago

Afghanistan on brink of ‘horrific’ mass starvation as harsh winter sets in

An Afghan boy carries a tray of bread on his head, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Published 1700 days ago

UN shares plan to spend $6bn to end hunger, says ready to talk with Elon Musk

Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, wait to receive free food in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Published 1719 days ago

‘We can meet anywhere’: UN food agency official on Musk's 'offer' to sell Tesla

Elon Musk (File Photo/AFP)

Published 1734 days ago

Taliban offers wheat in exchange for labour as WFP warns of acute food crisis

Afghan people carry sacks of food grains distributed as aid by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Kandahar.

Published 1741 days ago

UN world food programme warns of growing hunger crisis in Afghanistan

An estimated 14 million people in the war-torn nation are barely able to meet their daily minimum food needs.

Published 1811 days ago

PMGKAY, India’s Covid relief programme, praised by UN wing: Official

Under PMGKAY, the government gives five kilos of rice or wheat and one kilo of pulses free every month through the public distribution system. It will continue till Diwali, November 4, 2021.

Updated 1865 days ago

Malnutrition and diseases directly linked, says UN's WFP India official

Birhan Etsana, 27, from Dengelat, uses a nasogastric tube to feed her malnourished baby,

Published 1875 days ago

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