Update: September 5, 2022 - The United Nations has announced that 'famine is at the door' in Somalia. Read more about the announcement here. The worst drought in decades is ravaging East Africa, ...

Over 14 million people across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya - about half of them children - are on the verge of starvation. Right now, people are dying of hunger in Somalia, and without action, we will ...

Readers respond to an editorial about the need for more affordable housing. Also: El Niño and famine; Luke Morrison’s military museum. In “Freedom Round the Globe,” Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — A decision by extremists Islamist militants to ban food aid and international donors numb to a series of unfolding disasters made south-central Somalia the most dangerous place in the ...

Over 12 million people across East Africa are imperiled by a hunger crisis brought on by extreme drought. The worst of the crisis is in Somalia, where famine has been declared in 5 areas of Somalia to ...

Twenty years ago, Somalia was headed for catastrophe. Conflict, drought and government collapse threatened to plunge 200,000 people into famine. But relief groups lacked enough food for everyone and ...

The link between climate change and violent conflict is a complex one. In specific circumstances changing weather patterns may lead to conflict. For example, people may be forced to leave their homes ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – A decision by extremist Islamic militants to ban delivery of food aid and a "normalization of crisis" that numbed international donors to unfolding disaster made south-central Somalia ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and younger, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death ...