Some local farmers carry part of their sorghum produce at Naoros farm in Turkana Central during harvesting exercise earlier January 2025. [Lucas Ngasike, Standard] In a world armed with unprecedented ...

UNITLIFE, the United Nations initiative dedicated to fighting chronic malnutrition through innovation, and the Ecobank Group’s Foundation (www.EcobankFoundation.org) - the pan-African banking group ...

Diversifying food sources and developing underused, nutrient-rich crops could help combat malnutrition and enhance food security in Africa. When crop scientist Michael Frei grew up in Germany in the ...

Two million children in Nigeria suffer from severe acute malnutrition. Malnutrition refers to a condition that occurs when a person’s diet does not provide the right amount of nutrients for proper ...

Save the Children and World Vision are calling for political promises to be urgently translated into action to avert the deaths of millions of undernourished children in Africa. The two organisations ...

For a district that hosts more than 82 tribes from across Uganda and neighbouring countries, Kiryandongo’s challenges are as complex as its diversity. Alongside its 365,000 Ugandan nationals, the ...

GENEVA, October 7 (UNHCR) - The UN's refugee and food agencies joined forces once again on Thursday to appeal to donor countries to end an unacceptable level of suffering and acute malnutrition caused ...

MADRID, Spain, January 26 (UNHCR) - A close partner of the UN refugee agency has persuaded some of Spain's top artists to support an exhibition and online auction to raise money to tackle malnutrition ...

I visited the Doctors Without Borders malnutrition program in Katsina, Nigeria in December. My colleagues there were still traumatized by the hunger gap months earlier, the period between harvests ...

William G. Moseley received funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Fulbright-Hays Program. He is affiliated with the Mande Studies Association (MANSA) as president and American ...