UN agencies say world hunger levels rose again last year after soaring in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new UN report says more than nineteen million Yemenis are now going hungry.

The World Food Program says it is suspending humanitarian aid to Yemen due to lack of funding and disruptions in food supplies rooted in the war in Ukraine.

Aid begins arriving in a remote part of Afghanistan where an earthquake on Wednesday killed 1,000 people.

The Kremlin says anti-Russia sanctions will have to be reviewed if Moscow is to heed a UN appeal to open Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.

The United Nations food agency has warned that 20 million people in countries across the Horn of Africa are at risk of starvation this year due to delayed rains and subsequent extreme drought battering the region.

A Sudanese protester has been killed in fresh demonstrations in the capital Khartoum.

The combined effects of conflict, economic crisis and poor harvests are significantly affecting people’s access to food, the two UN food agencies say.

The UN food agency says 95 percent of people in Afghanistan do not have enough to eat.

Millions of people are facing hunger in the Horn of Africa as droughts recur, according to the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP).