U.N.: Malnutrition on the rise in Darfur
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Malnutrition is increasing in Sudan's violence-wracked Darfur region along with lawlessness and the number of people fleeing their homes, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
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13 October 2004 - The United Nations food relief agency warned today that the security situation in Sudan&#39;s strife-torn Darfur region is so volatile that it is hampering the delivery and distribution of food aid to the vast population of internally
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Armed robberies and bandit attacks on aid convoys are threatening deliveries of food to more than 2 million people in Darfur, the World Food Program said on Wednesday.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Sudan's minister for humanitarian affairs said Thursday his government has made "serious progress" in improving security and humanitarian relief in the troubled region of Darfur, as a UN team prepared an assessment that could decide whether the African country would be penalized.
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Sudan on Saturday questioned UN estimates that up to 70,000 people had died from hunger and disease in its remote Darfur region since a rebellion began 20 months ago.
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India has higher levels of  malnourished children than Sub-Saharan Africa, despite the  Asian giant having more funds and better infrastructure to  tackle the problem, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on  Wednesday.
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HIV infections are on the rise in all regions and in China the deadly virus is gradually spreading from high-risk groups to the general population, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Armed robberies and bandit attacks on  aid convoys are threatening deliveries of food to more than 2  million people in Darfur, the World Food Program said on  Wednesday.
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Violence is increasing in camps for displaced people in Darfur, where nearly a quarter million people have been displaced so far this year, a U.N. report said on Monday.
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An upsurge in banditry in war-torn Darfur is threatening food supplies to the Sudanese region, the UN warns.
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The United Nations World Food Program says malnutrition was spreading at an alarming rate in Sri Lanka's Tamil rebel-held regions with nearly one in five children suffering stunted growth.
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The UN high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, is calling for a big increase in the number of United Nations peacekeepers, human rights monitors and aid agencies to ensure security in Darfur.
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The world is losing the battle against hunger, with the number of malnourished people in developing nations growing to more than 800 million people and rising, according to a U.N. report Wednesday.
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STOCKHOLM -- Malnutrition among Iraq's youngest children has nearly doubled since the US-led invasion of Iraq, despite UN efforts to deliver food to the war-ravaged country, a Norwegian research group said yesterday.
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The World Food Programme is starting to airlift almost 100 more tons of food a day to Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gearing up for the most critical stage yet of its operation to deliver food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan. As the rainy season ...
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The United Nations says it is concerned by Sudan&#39;s lack of progress in bringing security to Darfur, where more than a million people have fled their homes for fear of militia attack.