The charity said six million people, half of them children, were at risk after a poor harvest led to food shortages and rising prices.
It has launched an appeal to raise £30m, warning the crisis could be as serious as the disaster in East Africa.
The ...
The food crisis in east Africa is affecting 13 million people in parts of Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan. Last year, the UN said the region ...
The deaths of tens of thousands of people during the drought in east Africa could have been avoided if the international community, donor governments ...
Drought and famine are not extreme events. They are not anomalies. They are merely the sharp end of a global food system that is built on inequality, ...
Irrigated crops in Dollow.3 February 2012, Nairobi - The United Nations declared an end to famine conditions in Somalia today, but warned that with ...
A quarter of young children around the world are not getting enough nutrients to grow properly, and 300 die of malnutrition every hour, according to ...
Over the past several months, the worst humanitarian crisis in the world has placed more than 13.3 million people across the Horn of Africa at risk - ...
