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UN, Save the Children start famine relief funds for West Africa

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian agency, has started a relief fund for the famine-threatened...

This Memorial Day is a time to remember lost loved ones. It's also a time when people can rally to save the lives of millions of people...

Iris Gabriel, who once aspired to be an actress, played her most important role as a humanitarian. She proposed an idea to Massachusetts Governor...

With hunger emergencies ongoing in the Sahel region of Africa, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan and other countries, President Barack Obama faces one of...

As the hunger crisis deepens in eight countries of the Sahel region of Africa, humanitarian aid should be increasing. This is not the case though...

The hunger crisis in the Sahel region of Africa continues to escalate with thousands of refugees from Mali possibly running out of food within...

Last summer the world was stunned by the famine in East Africa with thousands of children starving to death on the trek from Somalia to refugee...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP)in Nigerrecently receivedfunding from donorsto provide school meals through May. Niger is one of the countries...

With the food crisis escalating in the Sahel region of Africa, it's urgent that children be protected from hunger and kept in school.In Burkina...

Almost nine million people urgently need food assistance in the Sahel region of Africa following a severe drought. And time is running out to...