Ken Isaacs analyzes the shift from 'famine' to 'starvation' terminology in Gaza coverage, questioning whether technical data ...

The United Nations says "famine is at the door" in Somalia with "concrete indications" famine will occur later this year in the southern Bay region. This falls just short of a formal famine ...

Somalia is on the brink of its worst famine in half a century as drought intensifies and global food prices soar, leaving ...

Millions more people risk famine in at least a dozen crisis spots around the world, including Sudan and Gaza, two U.N.

A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won't. It hasn't for a very long time. Mohamed Ahmed Diriye is 60 years ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and younger, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - When African peacekeepers and Somali troops launched an offensive against Islamist militants in Somalia's small seaside town of Marka, Rukia Nur and her 10 children joined the ...

Even the best aid agencies find they can rarely admit their faults. Aid depends on donations, and donors need to feel confidence and trust to hand over money to an aid agency, which means the ...

The word ‘famine’ may be a familiar one, but it is not thrown around lightly by the people who decide when there is one. The fact that most of us today probably associate the term with the 1984 crisis ...

So, do you want the good news first… or the bad news? One year after the United Nations declared a famine in parts of Somalia, there is plenty to praise and even more to fret about in a country still ...