A baby with its mother while being treated for severe acute malnutrition in Mogadishu, Somalia Source: Getty / Ed Ram/Getty Images ...

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 ...

"Famine has been averted ... Years of drought Since late 2020, countries in the Horn of Africa -- Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan -- have been suffering the ...

As the Horn of Africa faces its worst drought in 40 years ... Somalia tops a list of the 10 most dangerous conflict-affected countries to be a child. 1. In 2011, famine in Somalia killed 260,000 ...