The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim has declared a cholera epidemic due to contaminated drinking water and weather conditions.

Health officials say Sudan has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more in recent weeks

A total of 18,737 suspected or confirmed cases of mpox were reported in Africa since the beginning of the year, including 1,200 cases in one week alone, the African Union health agency said Saturday.

The U.S. has called on Sudan’s military to join talks aimed at calming the country’s grinding conflict as the country faces a worsening humanitarian crisis

Sudanese paramilitary forces killed at least 80 people in a southeastern village, a medical source and witnesses said Friday, even as US-sponsored talks sought to end 16 months of devastating war.

Politicians and policy-makers love to say it: “We must learn the lessons of Covid.” Indeed, a repeat of the last pandemic – in which more than seven million people died, schools shut and entire national economies were switched off – is something we ought to avoid. Which is why now…

More than 25 million people across the country face acute hunger as well as outbreaks of disease due to civil war.

Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.

World health authorities are increasingly alarmed by the latest mpox outbreak, driven by a more lethal and infectious variant than the strain behind the 2022 outbreak – with this new version predominantly affecting children.