London & Dar es Salaam — Shifra Ainomugisha from Uganda is the 2026 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year. Her award was announced at the 2026 Commonwealth Youth Awards ceremony in London, where she was also named the Africa Regional Winner. Before anyone called her an innovator, before artificial intelligence entered the conversation, before solar-powered…
In his new role as WFP’s Acting Executive Director, Carl Skau gives his take on a global hunger crisis where conflict, rising costs and funding cuts are pushing food insecurity higher while aid struggles to keep pace. We are facing a perfect storm, with record-high levels of hunger that risk getting even higher at the…
NewsFeed The US-Israeli war on Iran could tip up to 45 million people into acute hunger, the UN’s WFP warns, as soaring fuel costs and funding cuts hit fragile and poor countries the hardest. Published On 5 Jun 20265 Jun 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
On Friday, 15 May 2026, faith leaders, humanitarian partners, Rotary International representatives, municipal and provincial dignitaries, community leaders and international guests gathered at the former home of Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Soweto, Johannesburg, to celebrate the continued expansion of the Desmond Tutu Programme to End Global Hunger. The programme is a global humanitarian and climate-smart…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has stated that President Bola Tinubu has turned Nigeria from “Africa’s giant into a hunger hotspot,” following the latest warning by the United Nations (UN) that nearly 35 million Nigerians could face acute hunger between June and August 2026. This was contained in a statement signed by Atiku’s Senior Special…
Aid agencies warn that time is running out to avoid an ‘irreversible humanitarian catastrophe’. Published On 28 Apr 202628 Apr 2026 Nearly eight million people in South Sudan are at risk of acute hunger as conflict and displacement worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis, according to a United Nations report. Published on Tuesday, the report…
A growing share of global hunger is becoming entrenched in a small group of conflict-hit countries, with two-thirds of people facing acute food insecurity concentrated in just 10 nations, a major international report backed by UN agencies warns. The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises, released on Friday by an alliance of UN agencies, the…
As the conflict’s spillover leads to spiking prices in parts of Asia and Africa, WFP says keeping humanitarian supply chains open is essential to prevent millions more from tipping into food insecurity. At a bustling food market in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, Mummy Christiana breaks down in tears as she describes how a conflict thousands of…
Can you hold your breath until you’re almost bursting to take another breath in? This urgent feeling that you need to get more air is called “air hunger“. You may feel this sensation when you exercise intensely and push to your limit. Your breath will usually return to normal quickly once you’ve stopped exerting yourself….
Countries in west and central Africa are facing a food crisis with multiple causes. Estimates in late December 2025 suggested that 41.8 million people were already in crisis or worse in October-December 2025. The number was expected to rise to 52.8 million in June-August 2026. Researchers Kirui Oliver Kiptoo and Chibuzo Nwagbosu explain how serious…
