Leading aid and development charity Oxfam said 36 per cent of Pakistanis were undernourished, listing Pakistan among the 21 nations of the world which were found to be undernourished according to a

The United Nations declared three new regions in Somalia to be famine zones on Wednesday, expanding the area where the highest rates of malnutrition and deaths are taking place, including the refug

The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced

Sometimes the British overplay their importance in international affairs, but in the humanitarian crisis in east Africa they have contributed more than most.

The whole of drought- and conflict-wracked southern Somalia is heading into famine as the Horn of Africa food crisis deepens, the United Nations said yesterday.

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Maharashtra ended famine forever by passing an Act that deleted the word

Ranchi, Aug. 18: At a time a central team is busy assessing the drought situation in Jharkhand, the JVM has stepped up its demand that the entire state be declared famine-hit, declaring an indefinite hungerstrike by its farmers