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 that studied hunger and forced migrations around the world…
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 treatment for patients with mild-to-moderate obesity to…
Tucked away on the University of Bangui campus in the capital of Central African Republic, a portacabin surrounded by palm trees shelters neat rows of test-tubes filled with green shoots. Here scientists…
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 United Nations. The UN’s Office for the Coordination…
GENEVA: Syrians in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta are so short of food that they are eating trash, fainting from hunger and forcing their children to eat on alternate days, the…
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 has pushed hundreds of children to the brink…
The government is in process of preparing a pilot project on National Zero Hunger and Family Farming Programme which would be implemented in food insecure areas. National Zero Hunger Cell in Ministry…
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 like Syria, Yemen and Iraq are gripped…
Millions more people globally are facing the threat of severe food and water shortages in early 2016 as droughts and flood devastate crops and strain a humanitarian system already struggling to meet…
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 worsening war that threatens millions of Yemenis with…
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.
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 in its territory life is a litany of…
Hungry flood victims looted food items from a camp in Jhang after waiting three days for Punjab CM who was scheduled to distribute relief packets himself Hungry and annoyed people looted relief…
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 more than 60 to 70 percent price…
Dr Shakil Afridi on Saturday called off his hunger strike when some of his demands were accepted by the jail administration at Peshawar Central Jail. Reliable sources told Pakistan Today that the…
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 BBC. Ayub Khan, assistant superintendent of the central…
US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland has said that US is concerned about the safety of Dr Shakil Afridi who should never have been locked up in the first place and the…
