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 ...

The latest order, which the United Nations estimated affects about 250,000 people, was the largest since October, the U.N. said. By Raja Abdulrahim By analyzing dog bones buried at the site, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...