At least $396 million is urgently needed to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition in northeastern Nigeria from turning into a “full-blown catastrophe,” the United Nations office in the West African nation said Thursday. “We are ringing the alarm bell that there are
Mother Orey is too malnourished to produce milk for her newborn (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster) Baby Suldhano is only two days old and will not officially be named for another five days in accordance with her parents’ customs. Yet her young life is
Battered by three intense cyclones in the space of a year, southeast Madagascar is experiencing the knock-on effect of those climatic disasters: “catastrophic” hunger in remote, inaccessible areas that is gaining little international attention, humanitarian groups say. Cyclone Batsirai hit in February
Comment on this storyComment Pat Blake, who manages two mobile home communities in Utah, began to notice some of the children who lived there seemed hungry after parents came to her to inquire about food assistance. Blake was one of seven siblings
An Iranian-British activist has vowed to continue a three-week hunger strike until the Government adds Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on to its list of terrorist organisations. Vahid Beheshti ate his last solid meal more than 24 days ago, and has been
Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was released on bail Friday, two days after going on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment last summer, his supporters said. Panahi was arrested last July and later ordered to serve six years on charges of propagandizing
An Iranian director who was arrested last summer, weeks before his latest film was released to widespread acclaim, has gone on hunger strike to protest his continued detention amid more than four months of anti-government protests. Jafar Panahi, whose films have thrilled
Almost seven million of the east African nation’s population of 17m are facing acute food shortages. And some 1.8 million children are thought to be at risk of malnutrition, according to the United Nations. Somalia’s drought is the worst in 40 years,