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Hunger Hotspots in 2026: Devastating Hunger Amid a Life-Threatening Funding Crisis

New York, Feb. 10 -- This year could be a pivot point for global hunger. Despite decades of humanitarian progress, we are witnessing a dramatic reversal: more people are facing severe hunger today tha... Read More


Pulses: A Powerful, Practical Solution to Hunger

New York, Feb. 10 -- Across the world, millions of families face hunger driven by conflict, climate shocks, economic instability, and fragile food systems. In these contexts, solutions must be nutriti... Read More


Understanding the aid shift and its devastating impact on global health programs (podcast)

Sudan, Feb. 10 -- It's been just over a year since a series of policy changes by the US government upended global health and humanitarian programs around the world. These extreme changes jeopardize t... Read More


The First 1,000 Days

New York, Feb. 6 -- The "first 1,000 days" is a critical period for nutritional development that begins during pregnancy and continues through a child's second birthday. This window of nutritional de... Read More


Sudan Becomes the World's Hungriest Country as Famine Spreads to Two New Areas of Darfur

New York, Feb. 5 -- New datafromtheIntegratedFoodSecurityPhaseClassificationconfirmsthatfaminein Sudan,alreadypresentintworegions, has spreadtotwonewlocationsin North Darfur. Sudan now has the most a... Read More


"You can't play if you get sick": Measles vaccination in El Geneina, Sudan

Sudan, Feb. 5 -- More than 174,000 children in El Geneina, Sudan, were vaccinated last month against measles, in the area's first measles vaccination campaign since 2021. Measles remains a leading ca... Read More


Government forces bombard MSF hospital in South Sudan

South Sudan, Feb. 4 -- A Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Lankien, Jonglei state, South Sudan, was hit in an airstrike by the government of South Sudan's forces durin... Read More


A US judicial ruling on Temporary Protected Status reflects Haiti's deepening crisis

Haiti, Feb. 3 -- Yesterday's court ruling blocking the expiration of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals in the US is a welcome reprieve for hundreds of thousands of people at risk ... Read More


Fighting malnutrition in one of Ethiopia's harshest landscapes

Ethiopia, Feb. 3 -- The road to Magenta in the Afar region of Ethiopia winds through vast stretches of dry earth and is framed by distant mountains and volcanoes. Afar, one of the hottest inhabited p... Read More


South Sudan's government blocks humanitarian access in opposition-held areas

South Sudan, Feb. 2 -- Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) denounces restrictions on humanitarian access that the government of South Sudan has imposed exclusively in parts of the o... Read More