The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is sending an envoy to Sudan as the humanitarian crisis in nears “breaking point”, a spokesperson for the global body has announced.

The bodies of several children exhumed in eastern Kenya showed signs of starvation and in some cases asphyxiation, a government pathologist said on Monday, as investigators began the first autopsies on over 100 people linked to a doomsday cult.

Sudan's warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations' top official in the country told The Associated Press on Monday, even as the two sides clashed in the capital despite another three-day extension of a fragile ceasefire. The talks would initially focus…

The couple missed the last UK evacuation flight out of Sudan on Saturday, believing the journey to be 'too dangerous'. They must now find an alternative means of fleeing the war-torn country.

The country’s warring factions continue to fight despite saying they would extend a barely respected 72-hour ceasefire.

At a refugee camp in remote eastern Chad, Amné Moustapha is close to giving birth. Her contractions are dizzying and her feet swell in the baking heat. Her husband is building a shack from sticks and string to shelter their coming newborn.

The United Nations warned on Monday that the conflict in Sudan could force 800,000 people to flee the country as battles between rival military factions persisted in the capital despite a supposed ceasefire.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is sending an envoy to the Sudan region amid the "unprecedented" situation there, as deadly hostilities enter a third week, his spokesman said Sunday. The announcement came as the army and heavily armed paramilitaries in Khartoum continued fighting, even as a widely breached ceasefire was extended…

Martin Griffiths, travelling immediately, says people are struggling to get the food and water they need to survive.