with exceptions for some emergency food aid and military aid for Egypt and Israel. The monitoring program was established after the 1984 famine in Ethiopia. More recently, it predicted the ...

U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher speaks during an interview in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) ...

Egypt TV says The world’s hunger monitor has struggled to access key data to determine whether conditions constitute a famine. Some experts wonder if it is time to rethink how a famine is defined.