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NAIROBI, Kenya — An Orthodox Christian priest, Tesfa Kiros Meresfa begs door-to-door for food along with countless others recovering from a two-year war in northern Ethiopia that starved his people.

Millions of Ethiopians were starved by a two-year war

Urgently needed grain and oil have disappeared again for millions caught in a standoff between Ethiopia's government, the United States and United Nations over what U.S. officials say may be the biggest theft of food aid on record.

According to the UN World Food Program (WFP), since March 2022 alone, 5.7 million people have been displaced in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri.

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Last week’s collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River in Ukraine is one of the largest environmental disaster the Black Sea region and Europe has faced in decades. Its far-reaching environmental, economic, and humanitarian consequences will affect not just Ukraine and the Black Sea region, but also the Middle East and Africa.

Islamic extremist rebels in northeast Nigeria have brutally killed at least seven farmers, posing a grave threat to the region's food security. The attack occurred on Thursday when militants targeted farmers working in their crop fields near the Molai area of Borno state.The incident took place at a time when the state is striving to

Six months after she got the call informing her that her U.N. assistance would be cut, Najwa al-Jassem is struggling to feed her four children and pay rent for their tent in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanons eastern Bekaa Valley.

The U.S. government has suspended food aid to Ethiopia due to massive diversion of that assistance, USAID, the U.S. international aid agency, announced on...

JOHANNESBURG / LUSAKA / KAMPALA - Key African countries stressed the need for grain imports to tackle food insecurity as Russian President Vladimir Puti