Gbarnga — As visitors approach the “Hague” bloc at Gbarnga Central Prison, a sea of hands-waving tin cups automatically jerk through the bars of the dark cells. “Get back!” shouts a prison guard as the over 35 detainees crammed inside a building originally meant to house 10. Up to seven inmates live in less than […]
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IN the past, cassava was associated with backwardness. In one of his gripping sermons, veteran Seventh Day Adventist Evangelist Mpundu Mweshi described how Zambians who hailed from Luapula Province were mocked at boarding schools and colleges over their staple food. Until five years ago, cassava was widely scorned as inferior to maize and of little […]
Poverty. Insecurity. Hunger. Call them the unholy trinity with a cold grip on northern Nigeria. Last week, the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organisation released a report indicating that the old region was in the company of 22 countries classified as “world’s newest ‘highest alert hunger hotspots.’” Our country is in the […]
About 100 children were getting their Sunday meal at a kitchen run by people with disabilities Children relying on a soup kitchen in Machibisa location, Pietermaritzburg, will not be getting their Sunday meal as usual. The soup kitchen has had to suspend its activities due to the looting of the shops that were sponsoring it […]
TANZANIA readiness and preparations to participate in the forthcoming United Nations Food Systems Summit are in full gear. So far, about 11 broad-based and inclusive food systems dialogues have been convened to rally stakeholders to develop a comprehensive summary of recommendations and commitments for Tanzania that will be presented at the UN 2021 Food System […]
These food heroes are guardians of their villages’ food security “Sometimes we are faced with droughts and other times we have floods,” says Anita António Candeeiro, leader of a women’s group of smallholder farmers in Chemba, Mozambique. Aside from losing food and income sources, these disasters also often wipe out fields, making it necessary for […]
Residents of Harare’s biggest slum, Epworth, say they are at the point of starvation and are begging for food handouts from government. One resident, Ruth Muchineripi (60) told Newzimbabwe.com in an interview Monday they are struggling to get two meals a day. “Please give us food, we are dying of hunger. We only eat once […]
Drilling more boreholes in communal areas under the Presidential Rural Horticulture Scheme, part of the broader Horticultural Recovery and Growth Plan, will be giving communities access to safe water for schools and households. The Presidential Rural Horticulture Scheme and Horticultural Recovery and Growth Plan programme seeks to uplift marginalised communities in line with the National […]
At least 450 million people in Africa are projected to remain poor by 2030, according to a new report. The projection is an increase by about 60 million from the earlier 400 million people. According to the new report published by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Africa Secretariat, eight of the 10 world’s poor will […]
“Every single morning, I wake up to hungry faces in my compound,” Dr Margaret Ssekidde, the director of Seroma Foundation, told this newspaper minutes before distributing an assortment of foodstuffs to about 1,000 vulnerable people in Makindye Division, Kampala. In an attempt to deal with the hunger problem induced by the 42-day Covid-19 lockdown, Dr […]
HALF of Zimbabwe’s population in 2020 faced extreme poverty due to the combined effects caused by the deadly global Covid-19 pandemic, and poor agriculture harvests. This is part of the findings from the 2020 Rapid Poverty Income Consumption and Expenditure Survey (PICES) telephonic survey conducted by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT). The survey was […]
The Government of Rwanda has allocated over Rwf27 billion to support the expansion of the school feeding programme to all students in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools in the current fiscal year. The plan to extend the school feeding programme to all students was announced last year. While presenting the Government of Rwanda’s actions relating […]
Government must be commended for continuing to deliver agriculture inputs on time especially to farmers being supported through the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP). Government support to the farmers has not only been critical in ensuring that the country achieves yet another bumper crop this year, but it has also been important in sustaining food […]
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Kenya: The Cost of Malnutrition
It’s noon. Mildred Achitsa, a Grade Two pupil in Kakamega County, is quite elated to hear the bell ring. “I have not had anything to eat since yesterday. Grandmother prepares sukuma wiki and traditional vegetables when she can afford, but I am tired of eating vegetables every day,” the girl who was orphaned at birth […]
The G7 group of nations have appropriated $382 million to combat worsening food crisis and famine in Boko Haram ravaged North-East Nigeria. The G-7 is an intergovernmental organisation made up of the world’s largest developed economies: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. Government leaders of these countries meet periodically […]
People in southern Madagascar are experiencing an exceptionally acute food and nutrition crisis that is leaving thousands of children severely ill and pushing entire families into extreme poverty. Since March 2021, MSF emergency teams have been setting up more and more mobile clinics to deliver humanitarian and medical assistance in several districts across the region. […]
London — The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday warned that, without urgent funding, one of the world’s fasting growing displacement of people, in northern Mozambique, risks becoming a hunger emergency. Over 730,000 people in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado have fled terrorist attacks and the WFP’s executive director, David Beasley, […]
Insecurity and conflict have plagued north-east Nigeria for almost 12 years, causing millions of people to feel the pain of hunger. As the north-east enters the lean season, food security assessments released in March 2021 indicated that looming food insecurity threatens an estimated 4.4 million people, 775,000 of whom are at extreme risk. COVID-19 has […]