Nearly 90 dead in Haiti gang violence, as country slides into chaos due to soaring prices, fuel shortages
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) -- A week of gang violence in Haiti's capital has left at least 89 people dead,…
4 years ago
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40 million more faced acute hunger in 2021: UN
The number of people facing hunger rose to 193 million last year as conflict, climate change and economic crises…
4 years ago
Nearly 40 percent of Tigrayans face ‘extreme lack of food’: UN
by Robbie COREY-BOULET Agence France Presse ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) -- Nearly 40 percent of people in Ethiopia's Tigray…
4 years ago
Madagascar: Severe drought could spur world’s first climate change famine
21 October 2021 More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become…
5 years ago
UN warns of growing hunger in Myanmar
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The United Nations said Friday it urgently needed funds to feed people in Myanmar amid…
5 years ago
IATF proposal to shift to MGCQ submitted to Pres. Duterte, for discussion in Monday’s cabinet meeting
(Eagle News) -- The proposal to place the entire country under the more relaxed Modified General Community Quarantine…
5 years ago
UN seeks $76 million in emergency aid for Madagascar
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United Nations said Tuesday that $76 million was urgently needed to help over one million…
5 years ago
UN seeks $35 million in emergency aid for Madagascar amid pandemic, drought
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AFP) -- The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) appealed on Tuesday for emergency aid of $35 million…
5 years ago
Roque: New record-high hunger incidence in PHL sad, but temporary; further opening of economy eyed
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that the new record-high of 30.7 percent hunger incidence among Filipino families from July…
6 years ago
Record-high of 30.7% of PHL families or 7.6M households experiencing hunger, reported by SWS
(Eagle News) – The number of families experiencing hunger reached a record high of 30.7 percent or an estimated…
6 years ago
More than two million facing hunger in Burkina Faso: government
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) -- More than a tenth of the population in Burkina Faso, a drought-stricken West African…
6 years ago
SWS: Some 4.2-M PHL families felt “involuntary hunger” or failed to eat for lack of food at least once in past 3 months
Says almost all families interviewed by phone have received food aid (Eagle News) -- Around 4.2 million Filipino families…
6 years ago
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