Press releases and statements

Famine unfolds with over 20,000 children hospitalised for acute malnutrition.

The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) report, published by five United Nations agencies, presents data from 2024.

Mohammed Hussein and Obada Abu Issa, were killed the afternoon of 26 June 2025 by an Israeli airstrike within a highly populated area of Gaza, which had not yet received displacement orders.

Fuel shortages in Gaza threaten clean water for 78,000 people, with vital infrastructure near collapse. Action Against Hunger warns essential services for up to one million are at risk without urgent fuel access.

Action Against Hunger urges that aid in Gaza remain led by impartial humanitarian organisations. Working under UN coordination, it warns that replacing proven systems risks excluding the most vulnerable.

Six months after the ceasefire, around 90,000 people remain internally displaced and 1.2 million suffer from high levels of food insecurity.

Action Against Hunger warns Gaza faces imminent child malnutrition crisis, with less than a week’s supply of therapeutic food left. Fuel, water, and power shortages cripple aid delivery.

Unrestricted access is urgently needed to avert humanitarian catastrophe.

One in two children malnourished due to the total blockade of humanitarian aid

Over 28 million Congolese face acute food insecurity due to conflict, poverty, and lack of aid, worsening the humanitarian crisis.

More than 12 million women and girls at risk of gender-based violence in Sudan.

US-led airstrikes hit health centre supported by Action Against Hunger in north-western Yemen.