Is Resource Wealth a Target?
Could the forces now reshaping Venezuela’s future one day confront Africa’s resource-rich economies as well? That question moved closer to…
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Conflict zones, droughts, floods, and other emergencies disrupting food supply.
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Hunger and War: Nigeria’s Next Conflict May Not Start With Guns. It Starts With Empty Bowls.
Nigeria is facing one of the most serious humanitarian crises in its modern history. In the country’s northeast, millions of…
Nigeria’s Hunger Crisis: A Security Priority or a Forgotten Emergency?
Nigeria is facing one of its most serious hunger and malnutrition crises in years, raising difficult questions about where political…
Liberia’s Rice Crisis Exposes a Dangerous Dependency: Where Is the Plan B?
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Women and girls under siege in Sudan
In Darfur the war has left women and girls trapped in violence, hunger, and disease. Reports from the United Nations,…
When Hunger Becomes the Recruiter: Starvation Is the New Jihadist Foot Soldier in West Africa
Empty stomachs are now weapons of war. Across West Africa, hunger is no longer just a human tragedy. It has…
Hunger Drives Uganda’s Mothers to Desperate Choices. And It’s Not Just Uganda.
Photographs are taken on the ground in Uganda by Food for Africa News contributors, documenting the true conditions of the…
Sudan: A War That Starves
Darfur’s war turns bread into a weapon. Who will eat, and who will not? El Fasher, DarfurIn Sudan, war has…
Can Today’s Hunger Be Faced with the Same Urgency as War?
From the Middle Passage to one in five Africans without food today, history shows how lives were once lost to…