Humanitarian crises

Health workers talk to a woman with her malnourished baby at Bay Hospital in Baidoa, Somalia, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Thousands flee yearslong drought in Somalia as hunger deepens and aid shrinks

One Somali family’s long trek to escape drought conditions is an example of a deepening humanitarian emergency in Somalia, where years of drought, conflict and economic pressures are pushing more families from rural communities into displacement camps as hunger rises and humanitarian funding shrinks

Afghan women care for their children in the malnutrition ward at Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai, File)

Afghanistan’s child deaths are rising as food distributions face cuts, UN says

An image of Fidel Castro hangs on the wall of a state-run pharmacy where a woman asks for medication in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba loosens control of its private sector in a struggle with a mounting humanitarian crisis

A Palestinian girl searchs for reusable items at a landfill in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Famine has ended in Gaza. But the gains are fragile and it could get worse

Farisa, who has relapsed into malnutrition, plays on a mat inside her house in Kware Sokoto, northwestern Nigeria, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian children pay the price for the Iran war as malnutrition and poverty surge

Thousands flee yearslong drought in Somalia as hunger deepens and aid shrinks

About 2 million people in Somalia face emergency levels of food insecurity, more than double the number recorded last year, according to Plan International. In Baidoa, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing prolonged drought have gathered in sprawling displacement settlements on the outskirts of the city.

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Nataly Mayora hangs clothes to dry on a soccer goal net as she does laundry at a sports center sheltering people displaced by the earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, Thursday, July 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Chronic illness and diarrhea surge in quake-hit Venezuelan communities as humanitarian crisis builds

Residents watch rescuers' efforts to reach survivors beneath the rubble of a building that collapsed in the earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, early Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuelans search more earthquake ruins as attention turns to humanitarian crisis

People fill water containers at a free distribution point amid water outages in Khartoum, Sudan, May 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

UN food agencies warn acute hunger will worsen in 13 hot spots as famine risks rise

Customers buy vegetables at a market in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, April 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Over 40% of Sudan’s population face high levels of acute food insecurity, monitoring group warns

Gas station employees prepare to fill a tank with gas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haitians cut back on already scarce food and ask how they’ll survive rising fuel prices

A man unloads humanitarian aid supplied by the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, at a school in Beirut used as a shelter for people displaced by Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon and Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Monday, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Aid groups crippled by foreign aid cuts plead for funds as Middle East humanitarian crisis grows

President Donald Trump walks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US to set up 12 regional disaster response hubs as it consolidates emergency humanitarian aid

Displaced people fleeing Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon and Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, settle at the Bir Hassan Technical Institute, which has been turned into a shelter, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

War has already displaced nearly a million Lebanese, and aid groups warn of a humanitarian crisis

Nyayual Chuol, right, watches her 18-month-old grandson Kool Gatyen Pajock, who was shot during the conflict-hit state, receive treatment at the Akobo County Hospital in South Sudan, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Florence Miettaux)

As fighting spirals in South Sudan, a humanitarian crisis looms for displaced survivors

Women sit with malnourished children at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

UN data shows 6.5 million people in Somalia at risk of severe hunger from drought

Latifa Bakkar attempts to give oxygen to her severely malnourished 2½-year-old son, Abu Bakar, as a nurse inserts an intravenous cannula into his arm at Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)

Afghanistan faces catastrophic hunger crisis as aid cuts force the WFP to turn away 3 in 4 children

A man walks his dog along Havana Bay where the Mexican Navy ship Papaloapan, carrying aid according to the Mexican government, arrives in Cuba, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

2 Mexican Navy ships laden with humanitarian aid dock in Cuba as US blockade sparks energy crisis

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

Drone attack by paramilitary group in Sudan kills 24, including 8 children, doctors’ group says

People fill water containers at a free distribution point due to water outages in Khartoum, Sudan, on Jan. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Famine is threatening more of war-torn Sudan’s Darfur region as an attack in the south kills 22

Massad Boulos, senior advisor to President Donald Trump, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the United States' embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

The US and UN launch a humanitarian fund with $700 million for war-ravaged Sudan

Sudan’s military says it breaks the paramilitary RSF’s siege of a key town

People wait to receive food donations from the United Nations World Food Program in Damasak, northeastern Nigeria, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu, File)

UN warns of ‘catastrophic’ hunger crisis in Nigeria as food aid funding runs out

People carry sacks and boxes of food and humanitarian aid that was unloaded from a World Food Program convoy that had been heading to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

US pledges $2 billion for UN humanitarian aid as Trump warns agencies must ‘adapt or die’

Afghan refugee families heading back to their homeland, gather next to trucks loaded with their belongings as they wait for documentation at the UNHCR Voluntary Repatriation Centre in Azakhel, Nowshera a district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad, File)

Millions of Afghans face hunger as aid cuts deepen a humanitarian crisis

Palestinian women struggle to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

Spread of famine in Gaza Strip averted but Palestinians there still face starvation, experts say

FILE.- Sudanese families displaced from El-Fasher reach out as aid workers distribute food supplies at the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali,File)

Sudan tops global humanitarian crisis watchlist for third year as devastating war grips the country

People wait to receive food donations from the United Nations World Food Program in Damasak, northeastern Nigeria, Oct 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Chinedu Asadu, File)

UN food agency projects northern Nigeria to experience hunger at unprecedented level in 2026

A Sudanese woman displaced from El-Fasher carries sacks of food aid on her head at the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah, in Sudan's Northern State, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

23 children die of malnutrition within a month in Sudan’s Kordofan region

South Sudan’s president fires deputy Bol, who was seen as possible successor

Women wait for cash assistance and dry grain from the U.N. World Food Program in Gendrassa refugee camp, Maban, South Sudan, on Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly, File)

Hunger monitor says parts of South Sudan face famine threat after months without aid

This photo released by The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), shows displaced women and children from el-Fasher at a camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (NRC via AP)

Famine is gripping two regions of war-torn Sudan, a global hunger authority says

FILE.- Yazan Abu Ful, a 2-year-old malnourished child, poses for a photo at his family home in the Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi,File)

More than 54,600 children younger than 5 may be acutely malnourished in Gaza, study finds

Newly arrived Somalis, displaced by a drought, receive food distributions at makeshift camps in the Tabelaha area on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia on March 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

U.N. food agency to suspend food aid for 750,000 people in Somalia next month

Sudanese displaced families take shelter in a school after being evacuated by the Sudanese army from areas once controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Omdurman, Sudan, located across the Nile River from Khartoum, on Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo, file)

Malnutrition in Darfur’s besieged el-Fasher city kills 23 people in a month

Adut Duor, 14 months old, sits on his mother's lap in the malnutrition ward of Bunj Hospital in Maban, South Sudan, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)

‘Children are bound to die’: Corruption, aid cuts and violence fuel a hunger crisis in South Sudan

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