Northern Nigeria’s response to the food crisis has been to play the ostrich and effectively act the role of the Dog in this time of famine. This, it is doing by stylishly and selfishly ethnicising the food crisis situation. The North’s stand is always predictably selfish, as if it is destined to go the way of the self, as against the collective.
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Marka Abass, Bauchi State Coordinator of Small-Scale Women Farmers of Nigeria SWOFON, stresses the dynamic role of empowering rural women…
The ECOWAS Commission said more than 4.8 million people across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are facing food insecurity resulting from the spate of terrorist attacks and military takeover of their governments.
ASHENEWS reports that the global roadmap released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says that an estimated 590.3 million will suffer hunger by 2030.
An agricultural expert in Uganda, stunned a farmers’ conference in the capital Kampala recently, when he revealed that nowadays most homesteads have no fires nor smokes during the day, because people are not cooking due to acute food shortages.
Katsina State Government says it is ready to partner UNICEF to end hunger across the 34 LGAs in the state.
Mrs Mary Afan, the President, Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) says Nigeria may not end hunger by…
The United Nations has warned that the already dire hunger crisis in Yemen was teetering on the edge of “outright…
Amid reports of dwindling food supplies in embattled areas in Ukraine, the World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday began ramping…
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), on Monday launched a comprehensive response plan for the Horn of Africa as…