The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

With hospitals struggling amid the violence, medics are using helplines on messaging platforms to reach those in need

More than 670 women, or 48 new victims per day, have been treated for sexual violence in displacement camps in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the last two weeks, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday.

Medics say they are been labelled traitors by the army and accused of treating paramilitary fighters.

The US Congress has cut back expanded COVID-era food assistance benefits, creating strain for some low-income families.

Heavy fighting in Sudan has displaced 700,000 people within the country since the middle of April, the United Nations said on Tuesday, adding the figure had doubled in a week.

The death toll from the ongoing clashes in Sudan has risen to 604 people, including civilians

Former Labour PM, writing in the Observer, calls for action as charities increasingly take over role of social security system

More than a hundred people in Kenya – among them children – have been found dead close to a small village in the south-east of the country. Most of the deceased were reportedly followers of pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie. While starvation appears to be the main cause of death, some…

Residents of Sudan's capital reported heavy air strikes in central Khartoum on Tuesday amid a surge in looting while Saudi Arabia said negotiators were working toward a short-term ceasefire.

Kenyan investigators exhumed 21 more bodies on Tuesday as they resumed a search for followers of a doomsday cult, who the interior minister described as victims of a "highly organised crime".

Air raids shake the capital as truce talks stall in Saudi Arabia.