The United States' system for monitoring famine globally has been taken offline amid President Donald Trump's order for a ...

While famine has so far been averted in Somalia ... As conditions continue to worsen due to drought and insecurity, hundreds of thousands of people across the Horn of Africa region are being forced to ...

even as parts of the country face a progressively increasing risk of famine," the report said. It added that apart from the food crisis, the Greater Horn of Africa region is also grappling with ...

"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 ...

A mother helps her malnourished son stand after he collapsed near their hut in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya Source: Getty / Brian Inganga/AP ...

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 ...

People in the Horn of Africa are praying for rain ... Drought in Somalia, dead livestock. The last famine in Somalia was during 2011-2012. More than 250,000 people died, half of whom passed ...

The situation in the Horn of Africa is reminiscent of Somalia in 2011, when more than 250,000 people died as a result of an enormous famine. Experts fear that a similar humanitarian catastrophe ...

In 2011, famine in Somalia killed 260,000 people ... and yet is feeling the impact most severely. Right now, the Horn of Africa is experiencing an extreme, persistent drought after four consecutive ...

A deadly cocktail of calamities — including war, drought and rising prices — is engulfing the Horn of Africa, the UN Children’s Fund has warned.