The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Children scared to go to school because they can’t afford clothes that fit, charity warns

Of 2,664 households interviewed in Croix-des-Bouquets and Delmas, 2,596 were usually getting one meal a day, survey found

Detainees at Jau prison that mainly houses prisoners of conscience began refusing food on 7 August

New York-based Human Rights Watch says it documented 78 victims of rape between April 24 and June 26.

Sudan's powerful paramilitary has been singled out by a leading rights group and 30 United Nations experts with accusations of rape and sexual violence against women

A helicopter has crashed in the Nigerian state of Niger, killing more than two dozen officers, military authorities say.

The United Nations has voiced grave concerns over the civil war in Sudan saying it is "spiralling out of control", as more than a million people have left the country to neighbouring nations since April as fighting between two warring factions has turned the nation into a war zone, according…

Detained Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been removed from the country's electoral roll in a move denounced by his political party as "inhumane persecution". Sonko, who is in hospital on hunger strike, was transferred to intensive care after his condition weakened overnight, the party added.

Some 60 people went overboard after their punctured dinghy overturned in the English Channel

Concerns are mounting for the health of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, who's been on hunger strike since his detention in July on charges of insurrection.

As Ecowas chiefs prepare to meet to discuss possible action against junta, civic group says ‘we need to be ready’