United Nations officials have issued fresh warnings that parts of Somalia are on the verge of famine. More than 7 million people — half the country — are in need of food assistance and if present trends continue, famine could...
Somalia is facing a new food crisis. By the middle of the summer over 5 million people will be in some level of food insecurity. Some 2.2 million of those people will face what is known as a “crisis level”...
Michael Scott Moore spent 977 days as a hostage of Somali pirates. He is a journalist and in 2012 he set out for the Somali coast on a reporting trip when he was kidnapped. What followed was a two and...
Somalia is ground zero for an emerging trend in global affairs– the nexus between climate change and conflict. Journalist Laura Heaton with The GroundTruth Project spent years reporting on how climate change and conflict feed off each other in profoundly...
Somalia is in the midst of its most catastrophic drought since 1950. Some 3.2 million people face emergency levels of food insecurity. And that is causing massive population displacement. Today’s map comes from the European Union’s Emergency Response Coordination center....
Hunger will be the humanitarian disaster of 2017. The UN already declared a full fledged famine in parts of South Sudan last month, and three other situations around the world are precariously close to crossing a threshold of food insecurity...
In a perfect storm, the Trump administration is reportedly seeking deep cuts to UN relief programs, just as 20 million people face famine. Colum Lynch reports in Foreign Policy that the White House has instructed the State Department and the...
What three conditions trigger the United Nations to declare a “famine?” What causes a famine? And how do you stop a famine? These questions are acute right now as the world faces an unprecedented number of people living in famine...
Secretary General António Guterres has spent the last few days in East Africa, visiting nations there that are slammed by drought and facing rising food prices. The drought, he said, looks to be the worst the area has seen in...