The World Food Programme (WFP) says it will reduce food rations for 8 million Yemenis from January.

The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator said 23 million people in Afghanistan are battling hunger, malnourished children are teeming in health facilities, 70 percent of teachers are working without salaries, and millions of students are out of school.

The UN's food agency warns that a failing economy could plunge Afghanistan into catastrophe next year.

World Food Program has estimated the cost of preventing global starvation at around seven billion US dollars, warning that the traditional funding streams were overstretched.

Nearly $10 billion in Afghanistan’s national assets have been held by the US Federal Reserve since the Taliban laid siege to Kabul in August and overthrew the US-backed government.

The United Nations (UN) warns of a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as supplies of food aid deplete in the war-torn country.

The UN says a convoy carrying food for Ethiopia's conflict-ridden region of Tigray came under attack at the weekend.

The COVID pandemic has caused an estimated 18 percent increase in the number of people facing hunger, a UN report says.

The UN says acute food insecurity has soared 40% this year as a result of price hikes over conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UN World Food Program warns some 41 million people worldwide are at the imminent risk of famine.