The money ran out first. Then the food. Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to...

The Kenya Meteorological Society says rains have ended the country’s long drought but aid officials warn that millions of hungry people still need food...

We claim to have defeated the darkness of slavery and boast of our development every now and then. The present Government’s claims of providing basic facilities and...

Persistent violence and a prolonged drought have plunged Somalia into its worst humanitarian crisis since civil war erupted two decades ago, with a third of its 10...

Across East Africa, drought is again leaving millions of people in dusty countryside hungry, thirsty and dangerously dependent on food aid, the United Nations has...

In the dark of night as is the underbelly of New Zealand those impoverished with poor wages, poverty, children going hungry, job losses in a country rich with...

The Israeli government is seeking to force Palestinians onto a dietary plan. Since 2006, 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza have been blockaded into an open-air prison...

Dressed in white or yellow T-shirts and black slacks, the dozens of people at Wednesday’s ceremony looked like typical South Korean company trainees. But the high...

Millions of people in East Africa face climate-related hunger as seasons shift and change, a new report published by aid agency Oxfam International said on Monday. ...

The Kremlin’s worst fears are being played out in a small town outside St Petersburg, as angry residents of crisis-hit Pikalevo marched upon the offices of the...

Photo by mst7022, Flickr creative commons For many in the village of Mondul 3 in Siem Reap Cambodia poverty is a way of life, for Sov Soparath this poverty ended in...

Ten million Kenyans are facing starvation but all our politicians can do is heighten their blame games as the situation deteriorates. When the post election violence...

“Please give me some food”, a desperate plea from a starving 17 year old Sarat, an inmate of Jatiya Jaradhi Sansad, an orphanage for the mentally challenged...

“I put a lot of salt in the vegetables when I am cooking to limit my children from eating a lot.” These are the words of a woman trying to feed her...

For over eight years, Cathy Buckle has been courageously blogging from inside Zimbabwe as it has descended into a lawless state run by murderous gangsters calling...

Emergency airlifts of food, clothing and medicines from Mexico, Venezuela and Russia reveal a humanitarian crisis in Cuba that is unprecedented in scope.Five weeks...

Colombians live in a country that has many resources to produce food. We have plenty of water, the possibility of having all sorts of crops and a variety of animals...

Whatever happens with the ongoing negotiation impasse in Zimbabwe, there are social realities that no agreement will be able to reconcile. Even if the process of...

Children in Zimbabwe are eating rats and inedible roots riddled with toxic parasites to stave off hunger because of chronic food shortages, an aid agency said on...

Inflation has spared none so far and no, Gods are not going to be spared either. Food prices have sky rocketed all over the globe in past few months and it is has hit...