The controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said, without providing proof, that Hamas had attacked an aid site.

Scores of Palestinians were killed as UN agencies warn that Gaza’s collapsing food system is accelerating mass civilian death ...

The first in-depth study of famine deaths in Somalia in 2011 was released Thursday. FEWS NET was one of two food security agencies that sponsored the study The new study put the total number of ...

The famine now starving Somalia affects 3.7 million people, ... As a result, famine deaths in the modern world are almost always the result of deliberate acts on the part of governing authorities.

The UN has called the famine the world’s worst in a decade. Now, there’s confirmation of the first starvation deaths since Ethiopia imposed ‘a de facto humanitarian aid blockade.’ ...

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about famine and learn more about a severe, prolonged hunger that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease.

Al-Shabab’s grip on large parts of southern and central Somalia was a major contributor to deaths in the 2011 famine. Much aid wasn’t let into its areas, and many starving people weren’t let ...

Famine: In Gaza and elsewhere, an underlying pattern that can lead to hunger and death "The rapid increase in malnutrition may signal the emergence of a famine system in the north of the territory" ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has sparked discussion of the potato famine on... "Landlord Takes All"- Lithographic political cartoon (from the magazine United Ireland) during the Irish Potato ...

A ban on food aid decision by extremist Islamic militants and a "normalization of crisis" that numbed international donors to unfolding disaster made south-central Somalia the most dangerous place ...