Food Crisis Affects 2 Million Ethiopians

11. Obesity exacts a higher toll on health and healthcare costs than either smoking or drinking because obesity-related problems are near epidemic level. Smoking and drinking are also responsible...

Hadero, Ethiopia - -- One by one, the children are placed on a scale hanging from a makeshift wooden stand. The mothers look pleadingly at the Doctors Without Borders aid worker, but he keeps his...

It's not being called a famine yet - but these Ethiopian children are facing starvation. High food prices and drought have combined to plunge one of Africa's most populous countries into crisis....

More than 100,000 people may have perished in the deadly cyclone that ravaged Burma, a U.S diplomat said Wednesday, adding that the situation is becoming "increasingly horrendous." "The...

Farmer and civil society leaders carrying out a peaceful action today in Rome, Italy at the FAO Summit on the Food Crisis were forcefully removed from the premises. At around 1:30pm farmers and...

SIRARO DISRICT, Ethiopia, 2 June 2008 -- UNICEF estimates that 126,000 children are in need of urgent therapeutic care for severe malnutrition in Ethiopia, and this number is likely to climb as...

SIRARO DISRICT, Ethiopia, 2 June 2008 -- UNICEF estimates that 126,000 children are in need of urgent therapeutic care for severe malnutrition in Ethiopia, and this number is likely to climb as...

The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday (October 16, 2006) it would have to stop delivering food to North Korea by January unless more funds were received. The United Nations agency wants to...

Millions of East Africans are at risk of starvation due to rocketing food prices, Oxfam has warned. Spiralling costs combined with successive droughts, violent conflict and endemic poverty have...

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