Famine
FILE - In this Saturday, May 22, 2021 file photo, Berhanu Nega, leader of the Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (EZEMA) opposition party, attends an election rally at Agena town in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. The country is due to vote in a general election on Monday, June, 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)
Ethiopia finally set to vote as PM vows 1st fair election

Jun. 18, 2021 02:37 AM EDT

A young boy looks up as displaced Tigrayans line up to receive food donated by local residents at a reception center for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Sunday, May 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Report on Tigray: 350,000 face famine, 2 million a step away

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 10, 2021 05:41 PM EDT

UN warns Tigray faces famine risk if aid isn't scaled up

By Edith M. Lederer May. 26, 2021 07:30 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned the Security Council that the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is worsening...

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, a malnourished girl, Rahmah Watheeq, receives treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. In a grim update to the U.N. Security Council Thursday, April 15, 2021, Mark Lowcock, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned that the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen is getting even worse with the COVID-19 pandemic “roaring back” in recent weeks as the Arab world’s poorest country faces a large-scale famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
UN says 155 million people faced severe hunger last year

By Edith M. Lederer May. 05, 2021 10:36 PM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, a malnourished girl, Rahmah Watheeq, receives treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. In a grim update to the U.N. Security Council Thursday, April 15, 2021, Mark Lowcock, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned that the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen is getting even worse with the COVID-19 pandemic “roaring back” in recent weeks as the Arab world’s poorest country faces a large-scale famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
UN warns COVID-19 is `roaring back' as Yemen faces famine

By Edith M. Lederer Apr. 15, 2021 02:43 PM EDT

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a closing speech at the Sixth Conference of Cell Secretaries of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
Kim compares North Korea's economic woes to 1990s famine

By Hyung-Jin Kim Apr. 08, 2021 11:40 PM EDT

In this image made from UNTV video, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a U.N. Security Council high-level meeting on COVID-19 recovery focusing on vaccinations, chaired by British Foreign Secretary Dominc Raab, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, at UN headquarters, in New York. (UNTV via AP)
UN appeals for $5.5 billion to avert famine for 34 million

By Edith M. Lederer Mar. 11, 2021 11:55 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2020 file photo, World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to journalists about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. After a visit to Yemen Beasly warned that his underfunded organization may be forced seek hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations in a desperate bid to stave off widespread famine in the coming months. Beasley told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday March 10, 2021, that conditions in war-wrecked Yemen are “hell.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)
'This is hell': UN food aid chief visits Yemen, fears famine

By Maggie Hyde Mar. 10, 2021 06:58 AM EST

Groups: Yemen aid shortfall means more hunger, less care

By Samy Magdy Mar. 02, 2021 10:55 AM EST
CAIRO (AP) — Aid organizations working in Yemen said Tuesday their programs will be severely cut after a U.N. appeal for donations to alleviate the world’s...

FILE - In this June 27, 2020 file photo, a malnourished boy lies in a bed waiting to receive treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The United Nations is launching an appeal Monday, March 1, 2021, for countries to fund its response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where more than six years of war have created the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. The virtual pledging virtual conference will be co-hosed by Sweden and Switzerland. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
UN chief: Appeal for Yemen raises 'disappointing' $1.7B

By Samy Magdy Mar. 01, 2021 06:08 AM EST

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018 file photo, a woman holds a malnourished boy at the Aslam Health Center, in Hajjah, Yemen. On Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that more than 16 million people in Yemen would go hungry this year, with already some half a million living in famine-like condition in the conflict-wrecked country. The stark warning comes a day before a pledging conference co-hosted by Sweden and Switzerland. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
UN warns of mass famine in Yemen ahead of donor conference

By Samy Magdy Feb. 28, 2021 02:56 PM EST

Children use buckets to clear muddy floodwater from a dyke in the village of Wang Chot, Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Some 1 million people in the country have been displaced or isolated for months by the worst flooding in memory, with the intense rainy season a sign of climate change. (AP Photo/Maura Ajak)
'Our children die in our hands': Floods ravage South Sudan

By Maura Ajak Jan. 01, 2021 02:58 AM EST

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to empty seats in the University Hall, during the digital broadcast of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Oslo, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. (Heiko Junge/NTB via AP)
UN boss: pandemic has exposed gloomy picture of world

Dec. 11, 2020 10:58 AM EST

A child fetches water with a bucket in Old Fangak county, Jonglei state, South Sudan Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. One county in South Sudan is likely in famine and tens of thousands of people in five other counties are on the brink of starvation, according to a new report released Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 by international food security experts. (AP Photo/Maura Ajak)
New report says part of South Sudan is in 'likely famine'

By Sam Mednick And Maura Ajak Dec. 11, 2020 03:26 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2019 file photo, a malnourished newborn baby lies in an incubator at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The United Nations Children’s Fund on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, launched a global appeal for a record $2.5 billion of emergency assistance for the Middle East and North Africa, saying the funds were necessary to respond to the needs of millions of children across a region hit hard by conflict, natural disaster and the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
Yemen 'on edge of precipice' as UNICEF launches aid appeal

By Josef Federman Dec. 07, 2020 11:58 AM EST

A malnourished girl Rahmah Watheeq receives treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday. Nov. 3, 2020. Two-thirds of Yemen's population of about 28 million people are hungry, and nearly 1.5 million families currently rely entirely on food aid to survive, with another million people are set to fall into crisis levels of hunger before the year end, according to aid agencies working in Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder

By Eissa Ahmed, Tameem Akhgar And Samy Magdy Nov. 20, 2020 01:06 AM EST

FILE - In this April 5, 2017, file photo, Adel Bol, 20, cradles her 10-month-old daughter Akir Mayen at a food distribution site in Malualkuel, in the Northern Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. The United Nations humanitarian office said Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 it is releasing $100 million in emergency funding to seven countries at risk of famine in Africa and the Middle East amid conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic, while the humanitarian chief says returning to a world where famines are common would be "obscene." (AP Photo, File)
Warning of famine, UN releases $100M to seven countries

Nov. 18, 2020 05:07 AM EST

FILE - World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Beasley says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020

By Edith M. Lederer Nov. 14, 2020 03:34 PM EST

UN food chief: Yemen faces `looming famine,' needs millions

By Edith M. Lederer Nov. 11, 2020 02:41 PM EST
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program sounded an alarm Wednesday that war-torn Yemen faces “looming famine" and...

Nobel winner urges billionaires to save millions from famine

By Edith M. Lederer Oct. 16, 2020 05:18 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the World Food Program, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, again urged billionaires to donate just a few billion to...