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 ...

People in southern Africa and the Horn of Africa stand to suffer most, officials say. The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said in December that more than 38 million people across Africa are at risk ...

and is credited with mitigating the effects of a devastating drought in the Horn of Africa in 2016. It has been used to try to target aid during the current famine in Sudan as the war continues there.

A mother helps her malnourished son stand after he collapsed near their hut in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya Source: Getty ...

Famine continues to threaten four countries affected by conflict ... Two million people have been displaced due to the drought in the Horn of Africa. The drought has also devastated the lives and ...

Famine has been on the decline for the last 60 years, but recent conflict, bad weather, locusts in the Horn of Africa, and now the COVID-19 pandemic are all making people more vulnerable. Read more ...

What USAID’s dismantling means for famine tracking tools, and a glimpse into the new future of U.S. humanitarian assistance.

The whole of south and central Somalia is now in the midst of this famine. Do you fear this humanitarian crisis will spread beyond Somalia, beyond the Horn of Africa? This famine is the outcome of ...

Africa and Pakistan are now battling outbreaks of polio, threatening the extraordinary progress the world has made in fighting the almost-extinct disease. In the Horn of Africa, there are now 121 ...

In 2011, famine in Somalia killed 260,000 people ... and yet is feeling the impact most severely. Right now, the Horn of Africa is experiencing an extreme, persistent drought after four consecutive ...