Famine was last declared in Somalia in 2011 when more than a quarter million people died, half of them under the age of 5.Much has changed in the intervening years, but certain fundamental ...

Somalia has suffered droughts throughout its history, Chinyama with UNICEF says, but now they are more frequent. "So, for example, now in 2022, we have a drought. The last one was in 2017," he says.

BAIDOA, Somalia — In drought-ravaged Somalia, where the starving are streaming into giant refugee camps, it looks like a famine. In Somalia’s malnutrition wards, where the silence is pierced ...

Droughts, the global pandemic and political instability have put many Somalis on the brink of starvation. But now, the war in Ukraine has pushed even more over the edge. The victims include ...

Baidoa, surrounded by Al-Shabab militants, is at the heart of Somalia's worst drought in 40 years. Aid groups warn of impending famine. "The needs are overwhelming," says a UNICEF specialist.

Imagine you work at a health clinic in the African nation of Somalia. All day long parents walk into your clinic with babies dying from starvation. You are running out of beds to assign each child ...

On the brink of starvation. Drought, conflict and high food prices are making Somalia's hunger crisis worse. Mullin fires back at Newsom over National Guard in Los Angeles: ‘Words are cheap ...

A new report by the Somalia government’s Minister of Health estimates that the drought caused 43,000 excess deaths in 2022. People are starving to death each day, and they are in physical pain from ...

Somalia and neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya are facing a sixth consecutive failed rainy season while rising global food prices continue to complicate the hunger crisis. A Somali woman and child ...

Somalia is on the brink of its worst famine in the past 50 years. However, a famine has still not been declared. Government aid workers say the decision is highly influenced by politics ...

How conflict and extreme weather have displaced millions and fuelled severe food insecurity in the Horn of Africa countryThe cramped streets of Mogadishu buzz with cars, donkey-drawn carts and ...

The Somali government and the United Nations have warned that without adequate funding, the country may be pushed to the brink of famine as it was in 2022, when some 43,000 people died of hunger ...