Southern Africa’s latest drought will “hugely increase” the amount of food-insecurity suffered by millions across the region.

How can the world’s neediest people be best served?

That's what humanitarians and diplomats have been discussing at a meeting at the UN in New York, organized by the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Information from satellite imagery is helping to assess the effects of the El Niño weather phenomenon in Zimbabwe and in the process fight hunger in the southern African country.

South Sudan is facing “unprecedented levels of food insecurity,” UN agencies in the country are warning.

Around 2.8 million people are in urgent need of food assistance.

The situation is particularly dire because the rise in hunger is happening during the post-harvest period.