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Sunbeams trickle through little holes on the straw wall of his small hut in Jhapa in eastern Nepal. A blue fishing net hangs from the low ceiling of the kitchen. A makeshift wood stove issues smoke. For 17-year-old Narendra Kisku, ‘Naren’ for short, this is home. He blows to light up the fire to cook. Then he coughs, takes another breath and blows again.

"I was so thin and weak that when the wind blew, I felt like I was being pushed and carried off the ground," says Esther Ngwilima, from Kakhoma Village in the central district of Dedza in Malawi. At the time, she weighed only 29 kilograms (64 pounds). "As you can see, now I'm stronger," she says.

 Thirty-one thousand people are facing famine-like conditions in Yemen – by June 161,000 people will be at risk, according to the latest IPC (Integrated Food Phase Classification) figures, the global standard for measuring food insecurity. They are at IPC phase 5 – or ‘catastrophe’, while an additional 1.6 million people in the country are expected to fall into IPC 4 – ‘emergency’ levels

When visiting families in Aleppo, you always need light to find the way — up several flights of stairs in the dark and the cold, wondering what we’ll see when a family opens a door. An empty refrigerator, no electricity and some old photos on the wall. This is what’s left after a decade of conflict in Syria. Abo Hashim, who is in his forties, grew up in a city filled with beauty.

Distribution started during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan when thousands of Sahrawi refugees received two kilos of dates per refugee.

At Bouansa, a busy intersection on the highway linking Brazzaville and Pointe Noire, a new product is available on roadside stalls. Packaged in bags of about 1 kg, gari — a toasted cassava flour — is being sold to passers-by. ‘Gari' originates from West Africa.

“The international community have very real concerns and at this time we need to separate the humanitarian imperative from the political discussions.

“The conflict has destroyed people’s jobs, lives and hopes for the future.

This article marks International Women's Day 2021: ‘Choose to challenge’   They come from a variety of backgrounds and have overcome a variety of obstacles, but the five voices below share a message: Yes we can.    ‘Three decades ago, when I would go into a meeting, I was the only woman’ — Konjit Kidane, Chief of Procurement   At the beginning of

The World Food Programme (WFP) is providing life-saving food assistance to around 680,000 people who have escaped violence in Myanmar. Families settling in the sprawling refugee camps around Cox's Bazar receive WFP monthly rations of rice, lentils and oil. However, making a meal out of these ingredients can be a challenge.