The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Armed groups are committing war crimes and human rights abuses as they besiege towns across Burkina Faso, the rights group Amnesty International has warned in a report.

Visiting Tanzania this week, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked for forgiveness for Germany’s brutal quelling of the Maji Maji uprising over a century ago. Around 300,000 Tanzanians died during this dark episode of Germany’s colonial history; some combattants beheaded and their remains yet to be returned to Tanzania.

Claims about growing affluence and an astonishing reduction in the Multidimensional Poverty Index are exaggerated as there is growing deprivation of access to food and shelter

Letters: It may be more realistic to focus on implementation of existing laws and mechanisms, rather than creating new ones, writes Jenny Kuper