Kabul, July 13 (IANS) As many as 3.7 million children aged below five years are at increased risk of undernutrition in Afghanistan in 2026 due to child food and nutrition insecurity, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report. In its report “Too Little, Too Late: The diet Crisis Facing Young Children in Afghanistan”, UNICEF said acute malnutrition has deteriorated in 26 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces compared to 2025. The UN agency stated that conditions are worsening even bef…
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New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Malnutrition is costing Pakistan an estimated $17 billion annually through lost productivity, higher healthcare expenditure, poor educational outcomes and premature deaths, highlighting a growing public health and economic challenge, according to a report.The report by The Express Tribune said the crisis is being exacerbated by climate-related disasters, food insecurity, unsafe water and inadequate investment in nutrition programmes.Despite contributing less than one pe…
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) As Pakistan gets included among world’s ten most severe hunger hotspots in the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2026, the country faces a dangerous overlap of climate shocks, economic fragility and rising inflation, a new report has said.The report from Maldives Insight said that surging fuel prices due to Middle East conflict has added a fresh layer of pressure into an already strained system.The Human Rights Council of Pakistan warned that the fuel price hike amou…
United Nations, May 14 (IANS) UN humanitarians have said that aid is being distributed in war-torn southwestern Sudan, while an amount of 12 million US dollars is targeted for famine relief in the neighbouring country of South Sudan. “The UN and its humanitarian partners continue to respond to humanitarian needs across Sudan,” said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).The office said that in the Kordofan region, aid organisations are providing life-saving support to …
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The ‘2026 Global Report on Food Crises’ (GRFC) lists Bangladesh among the top 10 countries with the largest number of people who faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025, according to an article in The Daily Star, a Dhaka-based newspaper.According to the report, around 1.6 crore people in Bangladesh faced crisis-level food insecurity or worse during the 2025 peak. These represented 17 per cent of the analysed population, although the report also notes that th…
Kabul, March 7 (IANS) The World Food Programme (WFP) has raised alarm over Afghanistan’s hunger crisis, warning that millions are facing acute food insecurity amid the escalating border conflicts with Pakistan. The agency stated that without sufficient funding, it may also struggle to provide aid to refugees fleeing Iran and Pakistan, as well as those internally displaced due to conflict along the border.“Afghanistan remains one of the world’s most severe hunger crisis, with one in three A…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Pakistan’s Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES), published after a gap of six years, exposes the extreme level of poverty in the country with food-insecure households surging from 15.9 per cent in 2018 to 2019 to a staggering 24.4 per cent in 2024 to 2025, according to a report in the local media.The HIES figures confirm Pakistan’s deepening human development crisis amid shrinking incomes, rising poverty, and widening inequality resulting from the prolonged sp…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Pakistan’s Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES 2024-25), released on January 2 this year, indicates a significant increase in household food insecurity, with roughly one in four persons experiencing moderate-to-severe food insecurity in 2024-25, compared to about one in six in 2018-19, according to an article in the Pakistani media.Moderate-to-severe food insecurity rose by 8.43 per cent during this period, going from 15.92 per cent in 2018-19 to 24.35 per cent i…