The Cold War era was marked by political tension, espionage, and a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet ...

In the Darfur region, largely controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, hunger is taking a devastating toll.

1959-1961 – Famine in China results in 15-30 million deaths. 1968-1970 – Civil war in Nigeria leads to famine, an estimated 1 million people die. 1974 – In Bangladesh, 1.5 million perish.

Executive Director, told the UN Security Council that Sudan is now the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis. After two years of war, over 30 million people – more than half of them ...

The head of the U.N. children's agency says the war in Sudan has created the world’s largest and most devastating ...