Images reveal Yemenis faced starvation through Ramadaan as humanitarian crisis grows May 12, 2021, 09:06 AM
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A child from a family who was affected by a 6-year war and blockades checks his family s Ramadan dinner meal he received from a charitable center at Mseek area on April 30, 2021 in Sana a, Yemen.
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Many have been relying on food assistance from aid organizations to get by.
The country is going through one of the worst humanitarian crises of modern times.
For the past month, locals across Yemen fasted for the Islamic Holy month of Ramadaan but many faced starvation brought on by a worsening humanitarian crisis after six years of war.
Southern Madagascar: Government and UN sound the alarm on famine risk, urge action
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Pressing need to upscale both food aid and agricultural livelihoods assistance to head off a worst-case scenario
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR: With each day that passes, more lives are at stake as hunger tightens its grip in southern Madagascar. This is the stark warning from two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), as they seek to draw international attention to a humanitarian crisis that risks being invisible.
Around 1.14 million people in the south of Madagascar are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, of which nearly 14 000 people are in ‘Catastrophe’ (Phase 5 – the highest in the five-step scale of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
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WFP/Krystyna Kovalenko, emergency distribution of hot meals to elderly population and malnourished children in the drought-affected regions of southern Madagascar. Pressing need to upscale both food aid and agricultural livelihoods assistance to head off a worst-case scenario
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR: With each day that passes, more lives are at stake as hunger tightens its grip in southern Madagascar. This is the stark warning from two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), as they seek to draw international attention to a humanitarian crisis that risks being invisible.
Around 1.14 million people in the south of Madagascar are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, of which nearly 14 000 people are in ‘Catastrophe‘ (Phase 5 – the highest in the five-step scale of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
Pressing need to upscale both food aid and agricultural livelihoods assistance to head off a worst-case scenario
11 May 2021, ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR: With each day that passes, more lives are at stake as hunger tightens its grip in southern Madagascar. This is the stark warning from two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), as they seek to draw international attention to a humanitarian crisis that risks being invisible.
Around 1.14 million people in the south of Madagascar are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, of which nearly 14 000 people are in ‘Catastrophe (Phase 5 - the highest in the five-step scale of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
11 May 2021 Southern Madagascar: Government and UN sound the alarm on famine risk, urge action
Photo: WFP/Krystyna Kovalenko, a child living in the Sihanamaro Commune, one of epicentres of food security crisis in the Grand Sud of Madagascar. Pressing need to upscale both food aid and agricultural livelihoods assistance to head off a worst-case scenario
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR: With each day that passes, more lives are at stake as hunger tightens its grip in southern Madagascar. This is the stark warning from two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), as they seek to draw international attention to a humanitarian crisis that risks being invisible.