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…
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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…
The World Counts Wars in Days and Hunger in Decades
When hunger is the silent war The world counts wars in days. A battle breaks out, and the death toll…
Two Hours to Water: Ethiopia’s Daily Tax
At first light in Konso, southern Ethiopia, Samrawit fills a yellow jerrycan and joins the line. The borehole is closer…
More Deadly than War: Children in the Horn of Africa Face a Greater Killer than Conflict
From the civil war in northern Ethiopia, to the protracted crisis in Somalia, to recurring election violence in Kenya, the…
Reflections: The Fields We Nearly Saved
In Chad, hunger has never meant only empty fields. Sometimes the fields are full, and then they are wiped bare…
Oil-Rich, Food-Poor: South Sudan’s Unresolved Paradox
South Sudan should not be poor. The country sits on an estimated 3.5 billion barrels of oil reserves, fertile soil along…
When Help Comes at a Cost: South Sudan’s Hidden Taxes on Aid
South Sudan is often described in one painful phrase: the poorest country in the world. The IMF’s latest 2025 data puts…
Global Hunger Falls Globally but Africa and Western Asia Are Backsliding
A new UN report shows a slight global decrease in hunger: in 2024, an estimated 673 million people, or 8.2% of humanity,…
Straight Talk on Africa’s Food Future
If it impacts Africa’s food future, you’ll read it here.