When we think of famine, we quickly think of a natural disaster, while there are often political causes as well. A famine ...
Americans usually overestimate the amount of money that goes to foreign aid, pinning it between 8 and 25 percent of ...
About 500,000 metric tons of food worth $340 million is in limbo as humanitarian organizations wait for U.S. State Department ...
Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine.
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scientists focused on the 1932-33 Ukraine famine engineered by the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin. That man-made disaster killed about 4 million people. And as the researchers found ...
The Sudanese army say the war has reached a "turning point." But with accusations of human rights abuses -- and even genocide -- there's still no end in sight for Sudan's devastating conflict.
As M23 rebel forces, allied with Rwandan troops, now control the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, "there ...
The Trump administration has deactivated the Famine Early Warning System Network ... has plunged half the population — some 25 million people — into high levels of acute food insecurity.