Latest forecasts indicate a 55-70 per cent chance of a La Niña developing towards the end of this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has said.

The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) released a report on Tuesday which stated that 69 million children below five years of age are at the risk of dying from "preventable causes" b

ADDIS ABABA, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the African Union (AU) have launched a project geared towards ending hunger in the Horn of Africa.

Around 300,000 children in Somalia are suffering from malnutrition, with close to 60,000 under the age of five years in critical condition and in need of urgent therapeutic feeding, the ICRC report

At least 12 people have died of cholera, and over 60 others are suffering from diarrhea in towns of middle Jubba region, southern Somalia this week, health ministry confirmed Saturday.

Somalia is struggling with extreme climate conditions, where in the last two years, below average and erratic rainfall provoked severe droughts.

The severe drought in Ethiopia has made headline news. But it has also scorched northern Somalia, a region far less able to cope with the impact.

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of people in northern Somalia may die as a result of the El Nino-related drought and a shortage of aid, and the poor rains that are forecast are lik

The president of the federal republic of Somalia H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called for immediate humanitarian aid as drought hits the war-recovering horn of Africa country.

The latest food security and nutrition assessment for Somalia released Tuesday in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in collaboration with the Famine Early W