A three-year drought has left more than half a million people in need of urgent humanitarian aid in Somaliland.

More than 100,000 people have left their homes in search of food.

Major political events in the US and Europe have preoccupied western media over the past year.

The funding came barely five months after the EU allocated $8 million from the reserve of the 11th European Development Fund to address the impact of drought in Zimbabwe.

Millions of Kenyan women and children dependent on health care funded by a UN agency face a bleak future.

Since famine was declared in parts of South Sudan a month ago, the United Nations children’s fund, UNICEF and partners have provided live-saving assistance to more than 145,000 people.

Somalia could face its third famine in 25 years after the previous crisis in 2011 that killed about 260,000 people, WHO warns.

The UK Government has announced it will fund a £16 million programme to help avert famine in Somalia over the coming months.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has appealed for international help for victims of floods that have left 246 people dead and displaced hundreds since December when torrential rains started pounding a c

Close to 3 million Kenyans are in need of relief assistance, official said.