The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Sitting in the dirt, Valerie Kahindo picks spoiled kernels from a sack of maize - the only job the farmer can find in the eastern Congolese city of Goma after rebel fighters seized her fields and forced her to flee without her family.

The remains of Private Sean Rooney were flown back to Baldonnel aerodrome in Dublin.

The executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, which won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago, says he will step down at the end of a six-year term heading the world's largest humanitarian organization.

Former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley has announced he will step down from his role as executive director of the U.N. World Food Program

Private Rooney of the Irish Defence Forces was killed during a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon this week

Defence Forces member Private Sean Rooney was killed on active service in Lebanon earlier this week.

A member of the Irish Defence Forces, Private Rooney, was killed on active service when his convoy came under attack in Lebanon this week.

The United States condemned in the strongest terms the violent attack on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers on Wednesday that left one Irish service member dead and three wounded. It called upon the Lebanese government to urgently investigate the attack, hold those responsible accountable, and prevent…

More than $10 million in additional funding has been allocated by the federal government to Emergency and Food Relief providers in response to recent floods.

Baidoa, surrounded by Al-Shabab militants, is at the heart of Somalia's worst drought in 40 years. Aid groups warn of impending famine. "The needs are overwhelming," says a UNICEF specialist.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has upheld its 25-year jail term against former Ugandan rebel commander Dominic Ongwen. In a decision delivered on 15 December, the ICC Appeals Chamber confirmed, by majority, the punishment imposed in May last year.