The United Nations and NGOs are warning of an imminent famine in the Gaza Strip -- a designation based on strict criteria and scientific evidence. - NGOs and the WHO concede that gathering the ...

Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who ...

In April 2023, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces spread into a deadly civil war across Sudan. Now, 16 months since the onset of the conflict, extreme ...

This month a group of United Nations-backed experts looked at the data and concluded the answer is yes. But no official declaration of famine has been made. As it turns out, making such a ...

Even so, internal IPC documents reviewed by Reuters show that the hunger watchdog is considering modifying its famine definition. Among options mentioned in the September documents: lowering the ...

When it comes to Gaza, the dumbing down of definitions is a growing trend: If the accepted definition of genocide fails to describe Israel’s war against the genocidal Hamas fighters, a new definition ...