The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Seven prisoners have been taken to hospital since starting their strikes, with some claiming a lack of medical attention

Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks

Month-long ordeal ends but no details released on how they regained their freedom or who was behind abduction

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 schoolchildren who were taken at gunpoint from a Catholic school in November. The government says that no more staff and students are still being held.

The Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif was the most prominent name among so many targeted for simply bearing witness to the truth, says journalist and media professor Jane Martinson

MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention

Echoing the dismantling of USAID, other countries are changing funding priorities and health and hunger programmes in Africa will lose out

When Sudanese nurse Asmaa returned to the Darfur city of El-Fasher, she found only bodies where her neighbours once lived and no sign of the family she had come to save.

Teuta Hoxha says she remains determined despite growing fears for her health and five other prisoners staging protest

The U.N. Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo for a year

With hostilities once again flaring in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations is weighing another extension of its Monusco peacekeeping mission when its mandate expires this month. Though the UN had been charting a progressive withdrawal, renewed fighting and an international push for peace look set to…