The number of Kenyans in need of relief food has risen to 2.7 million from 1.3 million last year, a government agency has said.

Animal carcasses littered the fields and stench of dead animals pervaded the air in Kenya’s Marsabit County on Wednesday (February 1), the result of a prolonged period of drought which destructed f

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somalia is on the brink of its second famine in six years, with drought already killing people in the north and crisis looming on a catastrophic scale, the Un

A second poor rainy season in Somalia has pushed livestock herders in the drought-hit Puntland region to trek an average of 60 km (40 miles) to fetch drinking water, aid agencies said on Monday, ca

The minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has assured Nigerians that the federal government is working round the clock to avert any imminent famine in 2017.

Scientific evidence of starvation has been extracted from the teeth of people who died in the Great Famine in 19th century Ireland.

Humanitarian convoys have uncovered emergency levels of severe acute malnutrition and famine-like conditions in Nigeria's Borno State, particularly in 15 satellite camps, where some 275,000 people

The Prolonged dry season has raised food insecurity fears among farmers in Rwinkwavu and Murundi sectors in Kayonza District.

The director of UN humanitarian operations warned Tuesday that 7.6 million people in conflict-torn Yemen face severe food shortages and are "one step" from famine.

Over one million people in South Sudan are at risk of famine in the next three months, according to a fresh report by the UN.