After weeks of rising concern about hunger in Gaza, a United Nations-backed panel has declared that famine is underway in northern Gaza, warning that more than half a million people are on the brink ...

At least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death. By Vivian Yee Vivian Yee ...

A REPORT ON August 22nd confirmed what many observers have long feared: parts of the Gaza Strip are now in famine. Analysis by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which monitors ...

Famine has officially been declared in at least one refugee camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of people in the Darfur region of Sudan, food security organizations announced, a stark warning of the ...

Several criteria, including acute malnutrition in at least 30 percent of children, go into determining that a famine exists. It is not clear who has the authority to officially declare a famine in ...

Famine is occurring in the northern Gaza Strip and is projected to spread to central and southern areas by the end of September, a global hunger monitor has warned. The Integrated Food Security Phase ...

A United Nations-backed global hunger monitor has determined that famine is now occurring in Gaza City and its surrounding area. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) had previously ...

The U.N.-affiliated watchdog group that recently declared a "worst-case scenario of famine" in Gaza quietly changed one of its key reporting metrics while doing so, making it easier to formally ...

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 ...

The world promised “never again.” Yet children are starving in Gaza and Sudan today. At least 132,000 children under five in Gaza are at risk of death from acute malnutrition. The famine ...