The number of acutely malnourished children under age 5 rose 34 percent in the past year across Government of Yemen-controlled areas, according to the latest assessment from the Integrated Food ...

An estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five are expected to face acute malnutrition this year in war-torn Sudan, ...

An acceleration of acute malnutrition has made famine a real possibility in some Yemeni government-controlled areas, a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warned on ...

Famine is the most severe form of acute food insecurity. How, and when, is famine declared? And what happens next? Your questions answered. On May 4, 2025, a health worker at a UNICEF-supported ...

(Reuters) - Nearly 166 million people worldwide are estimated to need urgent action against hunger, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global partnership which ...

For the first time in decades, WFP cannot launch a significant winter response, while also scaling up emergency and nutrition support nationwide. It urgently requires US$468 million to deliver ...

The world's leading authority on food crises said Friday the Gaza Strip's largest city is gripped by famine, and that it is likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to ...

Right now, famine is already occurring in parts of Gaza and expected to spread in the coming weeks. Sudan faces one of the worst hunger crises globally. The mortality rates are climbing in parts of ...

Specialists point to use of inappropriate, problematic data in latest IPC report, say methodological failures led to conclusion of malnutrition crisis not reflected on the ground The post UN report on ...