Global food commodity prices rose in February, driven by higher sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices, the Food and ...

VIENTIANE: The Lao government and the United Nations have signed off on a project to strengthen large-scale food ...

The surge was largely driven by the sugar price index , which rose by 6.6% from January after three consecutive months of ...

The move comes after southern Africa was hit by its worst drought in decades last year. It put 27 million people in danger of ...

The United Nations’ World Food Programme, which gets much of its funding from the US, is closing its Southern African bureau at a time when the agency is leading a response to the worst drought in the ...

The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the country’s warring sides ...

Africacategory· March 3, 2025 UN food agency shuts Southern Africa bureau during drought, citing low funding The United Nations World Food Programme, which relies on the U.S. for nearly half its ...

President Donald Trump has selected former U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia Lynda Blanchard for a role in his administration.

The United Nations is the world’s principal organization for deliberating matters of peace and security, but its work encompasses far more than peacekeeping and conflict prevention. The UN ...

CAIRO -- The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the country ...