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

Somalia is facing one of the most severe emergencies in the worst global hunger crisis this century. As the Horn of Africa faces its worst drought in 40 years, 1.5 million children in Somalia – or one ...

Nairobi, Kenya — A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children. It is the first official death ...

More than half the country’s children face acute malnutrition, an NGO estimates. At an encampment in Baidoa, Somalia, Garan Hassan tugged at a reporter’s sleeve. Her 18-month-old daughter ...

In 1960, child mortality was higher in Mexico, Brazil, China and Turkey than it is in Somalia today. We know how to save kids’ lives. At UNICEF in the 1980s and 1990s, an American executive ...

It's good those kids can see their history, their culture represented in those books." "I thought it was awesome because my family is Somali and I understand a lot of words, so it was very awesome ...

"It's not like all the Somali kids are bad, but there are some bad apples and those bad apple voices are louder than others," said Basheir Elmi, a Somali elder who walked with the group Tuesday night.

Her four-year-old and five-year-old died from malnutrition in their inland town of Burhakaba, victims of a record drought that has propelled Somalia to the brink of famine. Faced with starvation ...

“The ones in Dinkytown might be 100 Somali kids, maybe. But the ones who showed up in Crystal, like 300. The ones who showed up in Brooklyn Park, 400,” Hassanen said. “They’re not doing ...

Somalia has once again reaffirmed its commitment to reducing maternal and child mortality by participating in a crucial international summit focused on improving health outcomes for mothers and ...

She and her kids now beg in town or collect firewood to sell in order to get food. Somalia is teetering on the edge of a full-scale famine There's growing concern that a mounting food crisis could ...