Rising food prices are pushing millions of people towards severe hunger and destitution across East Africa, prompting Oxfam to launch a new appeal to

Rising food prices are putting millions of people in East Africa at risk of severe hunger and destitution, the UK-based charity Oxfam has warned.

NAIROBI (AFP) — Nearly 15 million people in the Horn of Africa region are facing a humanitarian disaster unless donors urgently release funds to deliver

By Derek Kilner United Nations agencies are warning of a growing humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa region. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi,

By Fiona Abaasa The Somali situation as days pass by continues to deteriorate and the feeling is it may indeed turn into a civil war with Islamist militias

BAIDOA, Somalia July 23 (Garowe Online) - Somalia's interim federal government held a session in the southwestern town of Baidoa Wednesday, where lawmakers

The United Nations has released staggering figures that more than 14 million people across Northeastern Africa are relying on food aid and other assistance

Some 15m people in the Horn of Africa face a humanitarian disaster because of drought and spiraling food and fuel prices, the UN warns.

Large areas of the Horn and East Africa are facing a state of humanitarian emergency with more than 14 million people requiring urgent food aid and other

AP Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed his children three meals a day — pancakes for breakfast, spaghetti for lunch and beans for dinner.

NAIROBI - Drought, conflict, hyperinflation, high food and fuel prices, the weakness of the Somali shilling and a succession of poor harvests have increased

People affected by drought line up to receive maize from the Red Cross during a food distribution in the Volayta region of southern Ethiopia, June 9, 2008.