Hard truths.
Globally, the report estimates that 7.8 per cent of the world's population, about 645 million people, experienced hunger in 2025, down from 8.1 per cent in 2024 and 8.6 per cent in 2022. That represents nearly...
The funding comes as large parts of the country’s arid and semi-arid lands continue to struggle with prolonged hunger following repeated poor rains. The Kenya Red Cross has described the drought situation as on...
The government cautions that stopping imports now would place more than 3.5 million people at risk of hunger. Rising consumption levels and weather-related production challenges, the State says, have worsened t...
According to a new analysis by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) up to 25 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are now in need of humanitarian food assistance.
According to the bulletin, nine counties- Wajir, Garissa, Kilifi, Kitui, Marsabit, Kwale, Kajiado, Isiolo and Tana River are in the alert phase and now “require close monitoring due to emerging drought conditi...
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) projects that about 2.1 million people in the Asal areas will face crisis-level hunger between October and January, marking a slight rise compared to the...
Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP) is a government-run cash transfer initiative that provides unconditional monthly stipends to households in eight arid counties: Turkana, Wajir, Mandera, Marsabit, Garissa, Tan...
NDMA Chief Executive Officer Hared Adan confirmed that the funds have been disbursed to 132,779 households in Mandera, Marsabit, Wajir, Turkana, Samburu, Isiolo, Garissa, and Tana River counties.
The report warns that without bold and coordinated reforms, the continent risks becoming the global epicenter of hunger by 2030.
The report warns that the amount of wasted food is so large it could fill nearly 500 million 18-tonne trucks.
One of the most devastating impacts has been the halt of nutrition services in four out of the seven camps. As a result, close to 80,000 children under five years old are now at risk of life-threatening malnutr...