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 ...

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 ...

Readers respond to an editorial about the need for more affordable housing. Also: El Niño and famine; Luke Morrison’s military museum. In “Freedom Round the Globe,” Sarah M.S. Pearsall tracks the ...

The Somalia famine of 2011 was sparked by a confluence of disasters. A major drought ruined crops, killed livestock and took away wage labor opportunities for people who relied on them. At the same ...

Over 12 million people across East Africa are imperiled by a hunger crisis brought on by extreme drought. The worst of the crisis is in Somalia, where famine has been declared in 5 areas of Somalia to ...

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 ...