Tag: Hunger
South Asia takes top position in child stunting rates: report
LAHORE: Child stunting and child wasting rates in South Asia are the highest in the world, according to a recently published report by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe...
Freezing hunger-signalling nerve may aid in weight loss
Freezing the nerve that carries hunger signals to the brain may help patients with mild-to-moderate obesity lose weight, a study has found.
“We developed this...
Can nuclear technology zap hunger in Central African Republic?
Tucked away on the University of Bangui campus in the capital of Central African Republic, a portacabin surrounded by palm trees shelters neat rows...
Violence, displacement, hunger will drive record humanitarian needs in 2018, says...
BOGOTA: Violence, displacement and hunger will drive record humanitarian needs in 2018, with nearly 136 million people worldwide in need of aid, according to the...
Besieged Syrians eating trash, fainting from hunger: UN survey
GENEVA: Syrians in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta are so short of food that they are eating trash, fainting from hunger and forcing...
In Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, children die of hunger
Hamouria: One-month-old Sahar, her ribs protruding under the translucent skin, breathed her last on Sunday in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, where a crushing regime siege...
Pilot project on National zero hunger, family farming programme being prepared
The government is in process of preparing a pilot project on National Zero Hunger and Family Farming Programme which would be implemented in food...
Hunger grips millions across Middle East as conflict fighters use food...
In a Middle East torn apart by war and conflict fighters are increasingly using food as a weapon of war.
Millions of people across countries...
Weather, war threaten to leave millions more hungry in 2016
Millions more people globally are facing the threat of severe food and water shortages in early 2016 as droughts and flood devastate crops and...
As factions fight, Yemenis suffer hunger, disease, fear
Eight-year-old Abdullah Musleh lay screaming in pain in a Sanaa hospital on Wednesday as a doctor cleaned his torn face, the victim of a...
Nigerians face killings, hunger in Boko Haram’s ‘state’
Women displaced as a result of Boko Haram attacks in the northeast region of Nigeria, sit together at a camp for internally displaced people in Yola, Adamawa State.
Nigerians face killings, hunger in Boko Haram’s ‘state’
Boko Haram says it is building an Islamic state that will revive the glory days of northern Nigeria's medieval Muslim empires, but for those...
When hunger makes one stoop so low
Hungry flood victims looted food items from a camp in Jhang after waiting three days for Punjab CM who was scheduled to distribute relief...
When money is dearer than hunger
Prices of fruits and vegetables increase by 70 percent in various markets of capital in the absence of price control authorities
The consumers are facing...
Shakil Afridi calls off hunger strike
Dr Shakil Afridi on Saturday called off his hunger strike when some of his demands were accepted by the jail administration at Peshawar Central...
Shakeel Afridi not on hunger strike: Officials
Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor imprisoned after the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden, is not on a hunger strike, prison officials told the...
US to raise Afridi hunger strike with Pakistan
US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland has said that US is concerned about the safety of Dr Shakil Afridi who should never have been...
