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| Nov.8 |
Yemen |
Yemen: UN official warns of world's biggest famine Yemen faces the world's largest famine in decades 'with millions of victims' if aid deliveries are not resumed, a senior UN official has war...
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| Nov.8 |
Yemen |
Yemen: UN official warns of world's biggest famine Yemen faces the world's largest famine in decades 'with millions of victims' if aid deliveries are not resumed, a senior UN official has warned | |
| Jun.10 |
Ethiopia |
Ethiopia's emergency food aid to run out next month Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid for 7.8 million people affected by drought at the end of this month, the UN has warned
| May.8 |
Amazon |
Venezuela indigenous group flees crisis for Brazil Around 400 indigenous Warao people from the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela have arrived in the Brazilian city of Manaus
| Mar.10 |
UN |
UN: World facing greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945 The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, the United Nations says, issuing a plea for help to avoid 'a catastrophe'
| Feb.20 |
South Sudan |
South Sudan declares famine in Unity State A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any part of the world in six years
| Jan.26 |
Yemen |
UN officials: Yemen could face famine if no immediate action The escalating conflict has left two-thirds of the population in need of humanitarian aid and the country could face famine this year
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| Jul.18 |
Northern Nigeria |
Nigeria Boko Haram: Children starving, warns Unicef
| Jun.13 |
Guatemala |
Drought heightens seasonal food scarcity in Guatemala
| Feb.8 |
Somalia |
Somalia drought leaves 50,000 children 'facing death'
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| Nov.10 |
East Africa |
El Nino threatens 'millions in east and southern Africa'
| Aug.19 |
Yemen |
Yemen on brink of famine, says UN official
| Aug.1 |
Southern Sudan |
Thousands risk starvation after government blockades Nile
| May.17 |
Aceh |
SE Asia migrants 'killed in fight for food' on boat
| Mar.16 |
Melanesia |
Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu 'needs food' Vanuatu urgently needs food and relief supplies, officials said, days after Cyclone Pam caused massive damage across the Pacific nation
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| Feb.10 |
CAR |
CAR faces threat of food crisis |
| Feb.1 |
Southern Sudan |
'Food needed' for 3.7m in S Sudan |
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| Nov.13 |
Southern Philippines |
Typhoon survivors go hungry despite aid Map of Tacloban Philippines That help is coming, on military and civilian transports, by air and by sea. But much of it has been piling up at airports
| Oct.29 |
Damascus |
Starved Syrians flee Damascus suburb |
| Oct.18 |
Washington |
US warns Syria over 'mass hunger' The US has urged the Syrian government to allow immediate aid convoys to starving civilians cut off in rebel-held suburbs of Damascus
| May.2 |
Somalia |
Somalia famine 'killed 260,000' Nearly 260,000 people died during the famine that hit Somalia from 2010 to 2012. Half of them were children under the age of five
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| Aug.3 |
North Korea |
N. Koreans in desperate need of food after floods |
| Jun.7 |
Southern Sudan |
Violence, hunger plague South Sudan |
| Mar.8 |
West Africa |
Oxfam warns of West Africa crisis |
| Feb.14 |
India |
Food prices 'hit poor families' |
| Jan.18 |
Sudan |
Sudan faces potential famine |
| Jan.17 |
East Africa |
East Africa drought delay 'cost lives' |
| Jan.15 |
Somalia |
Somali famine 'to kill thousands' |
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| Sep.5 |
Somalia |
Somalia famine 'may kill 750,000' As many as 750,000 people could die as Somalia's drought worsens in the coming months, the UN has warned, declaring a famine in a new area | |
| Aug.13 |
Somalia |
Somalia PM orders aid protection |
| Aug.12 |
Somalia |
U.N.: Not enough money to fight famine |
| Aug.3 |
Somalia |
Somalia's famine reaches into Mogadishu Map of Mogadishu Somalia Three more regions of Somalia have now been struck by famine, including the capital, Mogadishu, the United Nations announced
| Aug.2 |
Somalia |
Al Qaeda affiliate threatens starving |
| Jul.22 |
Somalia |
Militants: Aid ban in Somalia still in place Islamist militants in Somalia have reversed a pledge to allow foreign aid agencies to operate in famine-struck regions in the nation
| Jul.20 |
Somalia |
US to aid Islamist Somali areas The US has said it will send aid to famine-hit areas of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab
| Jul.19 |
Somalia |
UN to declare famine in Somalia The United Nations is set to declare a famine in parts of Somalia as it suffers the worst drought in more than half a century | |
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| Nov.16 |
North Korea |
N Korea facing hunger due to grain deficit UN: About 5 million North Koreans will continue to face food shortages. The government plans to import only 325,000 metric tons
| Mar.8 |
Bangladesh |
Burma refugees 'face starvation'
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| Oct.22 |
North Korea |
N Korea food shortage 'desperate' A UN rights expert says the food situation is desperate, with aid from the World Food Program reaching only one-third of the hungry
| Oct.15 |
UN |
More than 1 billion going hungry, U.N. say
| Sep.24 |
East Africa |
UN warns over East Africa hunger
| Sep.9 |
Guatemala |
Food crisis at emergency level
| Aug.27 |
Kenya |
U.N. seeks $230M to fight Kenya hunger
| Jul.9 |
Italy |
G8 summit to tackle food supplies
| Jun.19 |
UN |
World hunger 'hits one billion' One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a number which has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis
| Mar.24 |
Darfur |
U.N.: One million people at risk in Darfur More than one million people are at risk of losing food, water and shelter in coming months, following the expulsion of international aid gr...
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| Dec.27 |
Zimbabwe |
Children 'wasting away' - aid group
| Nov.15 |
Gaza |
U.N. agency in Gaza runs out of food
| Jul.30 |
North Korea |
U.N.: Millions at risk in N.K. food crisis
| Jun.12 |
UN Security Council |
Zimbabwe is worsening, UN warns
| Jun.4 |
Somalia |
Red Cross: Somalia facing severe famine
| May.22 |
UN |
U.N.: Poor could pay 40% more for food The world's poorest countries could pay 40% more for food this year than they did last year because of rising prices
| May.19 |
Ethiopia |
Ethiopian millions 'risk hunger'
| Feb.25 |
UN |
UN warns over food aid rationing
| Jan.23 |
Darfur |
Hijackings hit food distribution
| Jan.21 |
Gaza |
UN says Gaza facing food shortage
| Jan.4 |
Kabul |
Afghanistan appeals for food aid
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| Apr.6 |
Global |
Billions face climate change risk
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| Dec.7 |
Somalia |
Rains bring no relief to starving Somalis
| Mar.5 |
Kenya |
Time short food 'crisis'
| Mar.4 |
Zimbabwe |
Zimbabwe 'running out of wheat'
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| Oct.10 |
Guatemala |
Guatemala faces food crisis |
| Sep.12 |
Niger |
Food aid is 'misdirected' |
| Aug.9 |
Niger |
President denies hunger claims |
| Aug.3 |
Niger |
Lucky few get food |
| Jul.31 |
Niger |
U.N.: 2.5 million in Niger to get food aid |
| Jul.20 |
UN |
World 'ignores' Niger food crisis |
| Jul.18 |
Niger |
Children starving to death 3.6m people in Niger face severe food shortages caused by a drought and a plague of locusts | |
| Jan.8 |
UN |
UN upbeat on tsunami hunger aid |
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| Oct.15 |
Darfur |
'70,000 Darfur dead' since March |
| Aug.10 |
Darfur |
Starvation stalks youngest in Darfur |
| Jun.9 |
Darfur |
Children dying of hunger Hundreds of children have started to starve to death in war-torn province of Darfur
| Jun.2 |
Darfur |
WHO seeks urgent action in Sudan |
| Feb.8 |
North Korea |
Food aid dries up |
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| Nov.11 |
Ethiopia |
Famine threat to 15 million |
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| Nov.20 |
Afghanistan |
120,000 children face famine |
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| Jan. 1, 1994 |
North Korea |
North Korean famine Together with the accompanying general economic crisis are known as the Arduous March, occurred in North Korea from 1994 to 1998 | |
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