Famines are not common. When a famine is declared it means people are already dying. And the last time this happened, six years ago in the Horn of Africa, the cause was a natural one: drought. This ...

Large regions in northern, southern, and central-western Africa, as well as northern Madagascar, are experiencing severe drought conditions due to two or more years of lower-than-average rainfall ...

While famine has so far been averted in Somalia ... As conditions continue to worsen due to drought and insecurity, hundreds of thousands of people across the Horn of Africa region are being forced to ...

Save the Children has worked in Africa for more than 60 years ... Today, as Somalia is crippled by its worst drought in 40 years as well as rising food prices and conflict, the UN is warning of famine ...

World Food Programme stables including vegetable oil donated by USAID are stacked at a distribution point in North Kivu, DRC, ...

Irrespective of if there is a famine declaration in coming months or not ... and cash assistance services to drought-affected populations across East Africa.

A Nassau County man, who spent nearly 30 years with USAID, laments the abrupt shutdown of the agency and shares some of its ...

There have been repeated food shortages in the Horn of Africa region ... the last Somalian famine said the experience of local communities is that seasons are changing and drought frequency ...

Accra, April 29, GNA – The 40th-year anniversary of the “USA for Africa” was marked in Accra, Ghana, with the screening of a documentary depicting Ethiopia’s 1985 famine. Between 1983 and 1985, ...