The U.S. Agency for International Development once provided 65% of Somalia’s foreign aid. Now that funding is disappearing.

Yet the international organization responsible for monitoring global hunger, in a report released Tuesday, declared that the dire crisis triggered by Somalia’s worst drought in 40 years does not ...

Many have spent their entire lives in hunger. "Today in Somalia, every single minute of every single day, a child is admitted to a health facility for treatment of severe acute malnutrition ...

A new report by the Somalia government’s Minister of Health estimates that the drought caused 43,000 excess deaths in 2022. People are starving to death each day, and they are in physical pain from ...

NAIROBI - Nearly one in five people are going hungry in Somalia largely due to a drought, the latest in a series of hunger crisis to have plagued the country in recent decades, said the world's ...

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Many have spent their entire lives in hunger. "Today in Somalia, every single minute of every single day, a child is admitted to a health facility for treatment of severe acute malnutrition ...

BAIDOA, Somalia — At a camp for displaced persons on the edge of Baidoa, in southwestern Somalia, Mariam Kasim says that she's very old — so old that it's impossible to really know her age.

At least 386,000 Somali children face “severe acute malnutrition,” according to the United Nations Children’s Fund. Many children, listless and wasting away from hunger, are admitted to ...

That is tragically what is happening in Somalia right now. Repeated drought has led to extreme food shortages and hunger for Somalis. Farmers, who were already living in poverty, cannot grow food ...

The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) estimated 26 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are suffering from severe hunger due to drought. Famine is likely to be declared in parts of Somalia.