World Food Program has estimated the cost of preventing global starvation at around seven billion US dollars, warning that the traditional funding streams were overstretched.

Nearly $10 billion in Afghanistan’s national assets have been held by the US Federal Reserve since the Taliban laid siege to Kabul in August and overthrew the US-backed government.

The United Nations (UN) warns of a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as supplies of food aid deplete in the war-torn country.

The UN says a convoy carrying food for Ethiopia's conflict-ridden region of Tigray came under attack at the weekend.

The COVID pandemic has caused an estimated 18 percent increase in the number of people facing hunger, a UN report says.

The UN says acute food insecurity has soared 40% this year as a result of price hikes over conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UN World Food Program warns some 41 million people worldwide are at the imminent risk of famine.

The United Nations (UN) warns that millions of people in Myanmar are expected to face hunger in the coming months as food insecurity rises sharply in the Southeast Asian country in the wake of a February military coup.

The United Nations (UN)'s food agency says an unprecedented increase in food and fuel prices in Myanmar since the military coup risks undermining the ability of poor families to feed themselves.

The United Nations (UN) warns of a mass famine in war-torn Yemen that will put millions of people at risk, describing the country as the “worst place on earth” and the situation there as “hell.”