The U.N. said it will commence airlifting food to famine-stricken Somalia on Tuesday.
Islamist extremist group Al-Shabab has said that international agencies it had banned from its territory would not be allowed to return to help the Somali population with aid for the famine.
The UN declared on Wednesday that famine now exists in two regions of southern Somalia, which have the highest malnutrition rates in the world. You can help by donating time and money to worldwide organizations like UNICEF, The Red Cross and the World Food Program (WFP), or through Facebook and Twitter.
The United Nations has officially declared that there is a famine in Somalia.
The United Nations declared famine in two regions of Southern Somalia on Wednesday and warned that it could spread further in two months until donor countries stepped in.
Millions of people across Somalia are suffering from drought and famine, but you can help by donating to aid agencies working to bring supplies to the Horn of Africa.
50 percent of camels have died in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa country Somalia. This is the worst drought the region has seen in over half a century.
With no improvement in the overall food security conditions expected before early 2012, about a million of children in drought-ridden Horn of Africa are at the risk of dying from malnourishment.
amas authorities in Gaza have arrested a male hairdresser for cutting a woman's hair, according to a report on BBC.
A boat traveling between Sudan and Saudi Arabia caught fire, killing most of the refugees on board.
A Somali terror suspect captured and interrogated by the U.S. military in the Gulf of Aden will face a federal indictment in New York, placing the man at the center of an ongoing debate about how and where to try terror suspects.
Almost 200 illegal African migrants have drowned to death when their boat sunk in the Red Sea off the Sudanese coast, according to Sudan’s media.
Around 10 million people total in the Horn of Africa will need food aid as a result of a massive drought.
Britain has pledged to offer £38-million ($61-million) to Ethiopia in order to feed more than one million people who have been devastated by a severe drought.
UN refugee camps are at capacity all over eastern Africa. But Somalis keep fleeing their country headed to Kenya, Ethiopia and elsewhere.
Overcrowding sparked a riot at a massive refugee camp in Kenya.
President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism adviser outlined on Wednesday an evolving military strategy that will increasingly rely on targeted, clandestine strikes rather than conventional military operations.
Kenya has witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of Somali refugees fleeing that country’s endless wars and, now, the worst drought in six decades, according to humanitarian groups.
The Islamic sect has struck another Nigerian city, this time bombing a popular beer garden.
With a 30,000-person troop withdrawal now scheduled, how will politics in Afghanistan and Pakistan be affected?
The jihadist clan has made good on their threat to cause more destruction in Nigeria. They have said that the time to negotiate has passed.
To celebrate World Refugee Day on June 20, Jolie traveled from Malta to the Italian island of Lampedusa to tour the temporary camps with the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees.
