New research finds that the long‑term health impacts of the Great Irish Famine varied by region and socioeconomic conditions ...

Food security experts say the Gaza Strip is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade and stop its ...

Half a million people in the Gaza Strip face starvation, a global hunger monitor said on Monday, saying the Israeli-blockaded ...

By Samuel Doe OumaIn Kenya’s Turkana County and neighboring counties, there is a devastating outbreak of kala-azar, also ...

Three-quarters of Gaza’s population are now classified as experiencing “Emergency” or “Catastrophic” levels of food ...

International authority, which made incorrect assessment last year, says nearly half a million Palestinians face starvation, ...

To declare a famine, Bechdol explains ... day because of outright starvation or the interaction of malnutrition and disease. Gaza meets the threshold on the first criterion, but the IPC analysis ...

health services will “fully collapse,” disease will spread, and levels of malnutrition and death will cross the thresholds into famine. It had also warned of “imminent” famine in northern ...