food shortages

HAVANA (AP) — Communist Party leader Raúl Castro warned Cubans on Wednesday that they should brace for worsening shortages due…

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced an agreement Wednesday with the International Committee of the Red Cross to bring humanitarian…

Syria's war has destroyed agricultural infrastructure and fractured the state system that provides farmers with seeds and buys their crops,…

Egypt will ban rice exports from April 4 in order to preserve stocks for the local market and to combat…

Zara, an Afghan mother of seven, doesn't know what to tell her children when they ask about dinner. "I simply…

Several areas in Cairo and Giza witnessed an escalating gas crisis because gas cylinders allocated by the Ministry of Petroleum…

A young man was killed on Sunday in a fight over a loaf of bread in front of a bakery…

The state-run General Authority for the Supply of Commodities (GASC) is currently seeking tenders for the purchase of 70,000 metric…

To offset the usual food shortages experienced during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan--which this year will begin in August--the…