The 1974 famine in Bangladesh, which caused the death of 15 lakh people, taught policymakers that governments become ...

The internationally recognized mortality threshold for famine is two or more deaths a day per 10,000 people. FEWS was created by the U.S. development agency in the 1980s and is still funded by it.

The horrific atrocities committed against the Sudanese should be labeled as genocide. But why is the U.S. unable to apply ...

“As we have learned from these extreme crises, tens of thousands of deaths have already occurred before any famine was classified,” Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol said. The latest ...

Sudanese volunteer rescuers said shelling in the greater Khartoum area has killed at least 120 people, as fighting between ...

The United Nations (UN) on Monday highlighted the "staggering" humanitarian crisis in Sudan, saying that it is the only ...

U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north ...

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the leader of Sudan’s military in a devastating war that is spreading famine in that ...

And it shall be for a sign to thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thy eyes, that the Lord’s Tora may be in thy ...

A Liberian national previously living in Saratoga Springs was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison for illegally ...

There is now a perception that it is dangerous to protect aid convoys but safe to loot them,” one UN official said.

The U.S. charged Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and his Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary-turned-rebel-group largely ...