According to a joint report made public by the World Food Programme, the AU and other NGOs, the government could save millions by 2025 if the prevalence of underweight children is ... Read more »
This study asked young people what they thought about politics - and the findings, as reported by The Conversation, challenge the widely reported perception that young people in ... Read more »
"Even Syria or Yemen's brutal wars did not match the number of new people on the move in DRC last year," says Ulrika Blom, the Norwegian Refugee Council's country director in ... Read more »
The UN Children's Fund says the number of children projected to suffer from acute malnutrition has increased by 50 percent from the initial estimates given at the beginning of this ... Read more »
The Conversation Africa's Samantha Spooner asked Grace Villamor about her research on gender-specific responses by farmers in Benin. Read more »
Bill and Melinda Gates have released their annual letter, and this time it is addressed to their "dear friend" Warren Buffett, who donated most of his fortune to the Gates ... Read more »
The funding will be used to reduce dependence on food imports, create jobs and increase the incomes of rural households, especially women and youth, says International Fund for ... Read more »
In developed countries, the rich are thinner than the poor apparently, but in developing countries like Zimbabwe, this trend seems to be reversed, according to a survey. Read more »
The country wants to end hunger by 2030 and is investing more than a billion U.S. dollars to do just that. Read more »
The presidency has denied claims by various international organisations, including Save the Children and the UN Human Rights Council, that starvation and death were imminent ... Read more »
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