ADDIS ABABA, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the African Union (AU) have launched a project geared towards ending hunger in the Horn of Africa.

Malnutrition could have added to the number of deaths in the insurgency ravaged areas of the North-east if not for the intervention of UNICEF and other international agencies.

With 6.5 million people - a third of the population - in Malawi facing acute food shortage, UNICEF has committed to continue vital nutrition support for the country's 300,000 children who are at ri

Shahjahanpur: Following a survey by the state nutrition mission, under the integrated child development scheme (ICDS), that a shocking 68,361 children suffer from malnutrition in Shahjahanpur distr

The report says India is off course on meeting reduction targets for stunting, anaemia, adult overweight, obesity and diabetes.

Malnutrition is sweeping the world, fuelled by obesity as well as starvation, new research has suggested.

Children in the embattled Nigerian town of Damboa are reportedly suffering from three serious conditions — malaria, measles and malnutrition — despite aid workers' best efforts to keep them healthy

CHIPINGE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Several rivers pass from Zimbabwe's lush Eastern highlands through the lowlands of drought-hit Chipinge, Mutare and Chimanimani districts.