The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

People warn of growing lawlessness amid concerns that thousands of escaped convicts may try to exact revenge

Rebel fighters eye strategic town of Walikale as government forces suffer defection amid ongoing fighting.

Malaria season begins this month in a large part of Africa

Rohingya refugees in crammed Bangladeshi camps say they are worried about a U.S. decision to cut food rations by half beginning next month, while a refugee official says the reduction will impact the nutrition of more than 1 million refugees and create social and mental pressure

President Salva Kiir appeals for calm while analysts say escalating tensions could lead to full-blown conflict

A crew member was killed and two others were injured when a United Nations helicopter on an evacuation mission in a remote part of South Sudan was attacked

Tensions are again rising between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar.

Nearly 100 people have died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan’s White Nile State

Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a critic of Egypt’s rulers, began refusing food on March 1.

Haunting accounts of torture in newly found detention centre lead to calls for an investigation into what experts say could be among the worst atrocities of Sudan’s civil war

Exclusive: What appears to be a vast burial site found at former Rapid Support Forces base in Sudan, while rescued detainees speak of torture, starvation and deaths of fellow inmates