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 ...

For months, experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are on the brink of famine. Earlier this month, Israel eased a ...

"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 ...

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.

According to the United Nations, the worst famine of the twenty-first century is unfolding in the Horn of Africa. For months, a climate-change-fueled drought of historic proportions and supply ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Famine has officially been declared in at least one refugee camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of people in the Darfur region of Sudan, food security organizations announced, a stark warning of ...