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 ...

When we think of famine, we quickly think of a natural disaster, while there are often political causes as well. A famine ...

the UN is warning of famine in parts of Somalia within months. January 2019 marked the start of the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history. With children in DRC at great risk, our teams worked to ...

From November 2021 to November 2022 the number of people experiencing hunger in East Africa increased as follows The number ... Irrespective of if there is a famine declaration in coming months or not ...

The currency shift comes 21 months into a war that has devastated the northeast African country’s economy and infrastructure, caused famine in some areas, uprooted millions of people and seen the ...

Armed conflict, forced displacement and restricted humanitarian access are the leading causes of famine in Sudan, following a civil war that started in April 2023 between two factions locked in a ...