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 ...

The government of Sudan has not made an official declaration of famine and denies that famine exists. Aid groups are concerned that without a declaration, international resources won't be mobilized.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...