Food

Africa development bank approves $1.5bn for food crisis

Accra – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $1.5 billion emergency programme to alleviate the impact of worsening... Read more

23 May, 2022

Tokyo – One of Japan’s most popular fast-food firms said on Tuesday that it had fired a top executive who... Read more

19 Apr, 2022

Khartoum – More than 80% of Sudan’s wheat imports are at risk after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an aid... Read more

21 Mar, 2022

Tunis – Tunisian President Kais Saied declared war on Wednesday on food speculators amid a shortage of products such as... Read more

9 Mar, 2022

New York – Asserting that McDonald’s had not lived up to prior commitments on animal welfare, billionaire investor Carl Icahn... Read more

18 Feb, 2022

Timothy A. Carey, University of Global Health Equity Problems with some forms of inequity are easier to understand than... Read more

9 Feb, 2022

Kenya – US fast-food chain KFC has triggered an online furore in Kenya after it ran out of fries,... Read more

5 Jan, 2022

Loboc – Concepcion Tumanda picks through the mud-caked wreckage of her home on a Philippine island devastated by Typhoon Rai... Read more

22 Dec, 2021

Dakar – In a small restaurant in Senegal’s seaside capital Dakar, Thiane Ngom has risen early to cook up... Read more

16 Dec, 2021

Lagos – Nearly 17 million Nigerians are projected to be either at crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity next... Read more

9 Nov, 2021