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The World Food Programme says up to 20 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are at risk of starvation by the end of the year. The worst drought in four decades is raging through the Horn of Africa. Somalia is bearing the brunt with half of the population now …

An urgent appeal for more than $ 100 million has been launched by the World Food Program to alleviate severe shortages in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. The UN agency says three million people about half of Tigray’s population need food aid. Much of the region has remained cut off …

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says South Sudan is facing its highest levels of food insecurity since it declared independence 10 years ago. The agency says this is due to outbreaks of violence, extreme weather patterns and the economic impact of Covid-19. Pibor county in the east of the …

The United Nations says that an Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique has created a humanitarian crisis. The World Food Programme(WFP) said the cost of food had soared and that the violence had limited access to water, sanitation and education. Read more: While pursuing jihadists, four Nigerien soldiers are killed About …

Would 2021 be worse than 2020, the year marked by the coronavirus pandemic? David Deasley the Executive Director of the World Food Program, predicts a year when famine could reach the predicted proportions in the bible. In an interview granted to the Christian Post, David Beasley fears famine for not …