US Announces $2.5 Billion in Food Assistance to Africa
The United States on Thursday committed another $2.5 billion in food assistance to Africa, pledging to help the continent cope ...
Tag: Famine
Somalia is on the Brink of Famine, UN Warns
The ravaging drought in Somalia, the worst in four decades, is expected to worsen following the fifth failed rainy season. ...
Drought Response Committee Raises Ksh.542 million for Kenyans Hit by Famine
The National Drought Response Committee has raised Ksh.542 million for Kenyans hit by famine. The Committee headed by Safaricom CEO ...
Nearly 90% of Tigrayan Population is Food Insecure, Report Shows
Almost one in three children under five years of age in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray is malnourished, according ...
UN Says Somalia Famine Risk Worst in Half a Century
Somalia faces famine on a scale last seen half a century ago, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday ...
Too Weak to Cry: Famine Looms Over Somalia’s Children
As flies buzz over his tiny body, two-year-old Sadak Ibrahim barely whimpers, too weak to cry or shoo them away ...
20 million risk starvation as Horn of Africa drought worsens: UN
Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, ...
Baidoa: Crossroads of despair in drought-ravaged Somalia
Under the blazing sun, Salado Adan Mohamed puts the finishing touches to her makeshift shelter, cobbled together from branches and ...
‘Afar has been raided’: Suffering stalks Ethiopia’s forgotten front
The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to ...
Nigeria: Aid workers forced to pull back as famine looms
Risk of famine is looming in Nigeria as a decade-long Islamist insurgency in the country's northeast shows no signs of ...