The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Umer Khalid, 22, has stopped drinking water as well as food in protest against charges against him

After agreeing to accept deportees from the United States last year, South Sudan sent a list of requests to Washington that included American support for the prosecution of an opposition leader and sanctions relief for a senior official accused of diverting over a billion dollars in public funds

A week after Uganda's incumbent President Yoweri Museveni was re-elected for a seventh term, opposition leader Bobi Wine says he has evidence the polls were rigged. In an interview with RFI, he calls for peaceful protests – and a firmer stance from the international community.

The southern African nation of Malawi has started a cholera vaccination rollout this week in a bid to stem the threat of a disease that kills tens of thousands of people globally each year

Giel Malual and John Kuei trekked from Dungeness to John o’Groats to raise funds for new schools in Sudan

The U.N. World Food Program warns that over a million people in northeast Nigeria could lose emergency food aid soon without new funding

Nigerian police have admitted that gunmen abducted worshippers during mass last Sunday in northern Kaduna state after initially dismissing reports of the attack as “totally false”. The reversal follows claims from church leaders and local officials that large numbers of people were taken from several churches.

An Associated Press videographer in Haiti was filming a group of tactical police patrolling the capital on Monday when gang members attacked

Email sent to diplomats by state department office’s new boss is labelled ‘racist’ after dismissing Africa as a priority

Uganda's army chief, who is also the son of long-serving president Yoweri Museveni, said he wants opposition leader Bobi Wine dead, days after Wine claimed he had been forced into hiding. Wine already survived many attacks on his life since entering politics.

Yemen's hunger crisis is worsening as aid funding declines and conflict disrupts food access for millions.