Sub-Saharan Africa faces grave hunger challenges in 2020: UN food relief agency

At the dawn of the next decade, a new World Food Programme (WFP) forecast of global hunger hotspots has revealed that escalating hunger will challenge sub-Saharan Africa in the first half of 2020.

Read the full article at:

https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/12/1054571

Zimbabwe ‘facing worst hunger crisis in a decade’

03 Dec 2019

Zimbabwe is facing its worst hunger crisis in a decade with half of the population – 7.7 million people – food insecure, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.

Lack of jobs, the main driver of violent extremism in sub-Saharan Africa: UNDP

07 Feb 2023

A lack of job opportunities is the leading factor driving people to join fast-growing violent extremist groups in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report released by the UN Development Programme on Tuesday.

WFP requires $16.9 billion in 2025 as hunger reaches alarming highs

22 Nov 2024

The World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday called for some $16.9 billion to address the escalating global hunger crisis – or roughly what the world spends on coffee in just two weeks.