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 ...

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 ...

Between 2010 and 2012, more than a quarter of a million people died in the famine in Somalia – in part because the world was too slow to react, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia said ...

His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement. But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature. By Keith Schneider The ...

As the UN announces that famine has spread in Somalia to three additional regions (making five in total now), the US has put the first number to the amount of children under 5 who have so far perished ...

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By Aaron Ross NAIROBI, May 14 (Reuters) - A district in southern Somalia is at risk of famine, a U.N.-sponsored report said on Thursday, the first time that part of the country has reached such a ...

Famine-hit areas of southern Somalia will likely spread in coming days, with the situation continuing to worsen despite massive international aid efforts, the United Nations has warned. “The situation ...

The El Niño brewing this year might make 2027 the hottest year on record. By David Wallace-Wells His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental ...