The ongoing threat of famine and food shortage in sub-Saharan Africa has become, to outsiders, a global suffering cliché. But for Christians, the crisis in the dusty East African terrain should ...

Meteorologists are issuing bleak warnings of a fifth disappointing rainy season, which normally starts next month through most of eastern Africa, and projecting dry weather into next year.

To detect famine, the I.P.C. measures rates of hunger, malnutrition and death over short periods, usually three to six months. But the drought in Somalia — and across the wider Horn of Africa ...

East Africa's worst drought in 40 years has forced millions of Somalis to leave their homes. Five consecutive failed rainy seasons pushed the fragile nation to the brink of famine, and this year ...

The last time the FRC declared a famine was in 2017, when 80,000 people in South Sudan faced famine conditions in parts of Unity State after three years of civil war.

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 ...

"In the Horn of Africa, in total, the numbers have been ... "I think too many donors are waiting for a famine declaration, before they take action," David Miliband, president and CEO of the ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Human shields and drones, famine and terrorists and China's Belt and Road. That's the toxic cocktail that is Somalia today, stirred by a superpower struggle clothed ...

Famine is formally declared when three awful ... But humanitarian agencies warn that relief efforts in the Horn of Africa must be scaled up dramatically to prevent mass starvation and death.

Over 14 million people across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are on the verge of starvation as drought and conflict grip the Horn of Africa, raising the threat of famine. Extreme hunger is also growing ...

It was just the fourth time the IPC has issued a famine finding since it was set ... are perishing every day from starvation, the UK’s Africa minister, Ray Collins, told parliament this month.