Famine is set to spread to two new southern Somali regions with millions of people reeling from extreme drought, the top UN humanitarian aid official for the war-torn nation warned on Wednesday.
Britain said on August 17 that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there, and pledged a furt
Valerie Amos, the UN's emergency aid co-ordinator, Friday called for another billion dollars in donations to aid drought victims in Somalia and the general region of East Africa.
Beyond freelance gunmen, Islamist militants, cholera, malaria, measles and the staggering needs of hundreds of thousands of starving children, aid agencies scrambling to address Somalia’s famine no
The famine in the Horn of Africa is manmade - the result of artificially high prices for food and civil conflict, the World Bank's lead economist for Kenya Wolfgang Fengler told Reuters Tuesday.
The world must act urgently to save the lives of millions affected by drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Friday.
The United Nations declared three new regions in Somalia to be famine zones on Wednesday, expanding the area where the highest rates of malnutrition and deaths are taking place, including the refug
The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced
Sometimes the British overplay their importance in international affairs, but in the humanitarian crisis in east Africa they have contributed more than most.
