Satellite data shows hunger looming in Senegal, Mauritania
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Hundreds of thousands of people in Senegal and Mauritania are at risk of going hungry in the coming year because not enough grass has grown to feed the region’s cattle, analysts said on Friday. Satellite maps show barren pastures across large swaths of the two West African countries, which means animals will die, […]
Yemeni mothers forced to choose which child starves, says aid group
Thomson Reuters Foundation Mothers are being forced to leave their children to starve as they face a “catastrophic” shortage of food in war-torn Yemen, a humanitarian group said on Thursday. As the warring parties pledged a ceasefire over a key entry port for supplies, Action Against Hunger said many civilians were struggling to survive in a conflict […]