The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

A proposed cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas is raising hopes across the Middle East and beyond that eight months of fighting could soon come to an end and that dozens of captives taken by the militant group could soon be freed

Legal actions seek payouts for asylum seekers locked up for weeks without immediate plan for deportation

The displacement of people around the world has once again smashed records, the United Nations refugee agency warned, reporting that 120 million people have been forced from their homes by war, violence and persecution.

Israeli helicopters struck Gaza's Rafah on Thursday, residents said, with Hamas militants reporting street battles in the southern city after top US diplomat Antony Blinken said a truce was still possible.

UN lawyers say British refugee deportation plan could see Rwanda send them elsewhere, exposing them to further dangers.

One thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools

World Health Organization chief Tedros says 8,000 children under age five in Gaza diagnosed with acute malnutrition.

The UN recently warned of the risk of famine in Sudan. The war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has killed civilians and devastated livelihoods on a massive scale. Around 18 million people are already acutely hungry, including 3.6 million children who are acutely malnourished.

The Malawi government says that Vice President Saulos Chilima will be honored with a state funeral after he was killed along with eight other people in a plane crash

Violence against children in armed conflicts reached "extreme levels" in 2023, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to a forthcoming UN report obtained by AFP on Tuesday.

Qatari, Egyptian mediators say they will ‘examine the response’ after Hamas says it will ‘deal positively’ with plan.