Drought

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February 26, 2023
Biden promoted U.S.- backed programs that teach about HIV/AIDS, preventing infection and safe sex practices.
February 23, 2023
Trends in a historic Horn of Africa drought are now worse than they were during the 2011 drought in which at least…
October 5, 2022
In Somalia, a nation of poets, droughts are named for the kind of pain they bring. Their current one doesn't…
September 10, 2022
Parts of Africa heavily exposed to rising seas will suffer tens of billions of dollars in damages over the decades,…
August 8, 2022
Climate hazards like flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of people's hundreds of known infectious diseases.
Somalian mother and child, theGrio.com
June 8, 2022
Drought in Horn of Africa is the worst in four decades and is responsible for hundreds of deaths, particularly of…
June 27, 2021
While fireworks are integral to the country’s Independence Day celebrations, they ignite thousands of fires a year.
December 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Budding filmmaker Nathan Araya and his friends have created a documentary 'Sincerely, Ethiopia' which tackles the media’s…
August 3, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - As the worst drought in decades grips 26 U.S. states, business owners in affected areas and beyond…
October 5, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Would it be too far-fetched to imagine a coalition of African-American celebrities united as a voice for…
August 15, 2011
SOMALIA - "My son was my world," she says, "even at eight, he helped me with the younger children. I…
August 11, 2011
VIDEO - Somalia-born rapper and poet K'naan is prompting action in his homeland. U2's Bono brought K'naan on stage last…
August 8, 2011
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa's famine unless more help arrives,…
August 8, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - While famine in neighboring Somalia has killed tens of thousands, there have been hunger-related deaths in…
July 21, 2011
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somali soldiers beat back desperate families with gun butts Thursday as they fought for food supplies…
July 20, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Tens of thousands of Somalis are feared dead in the world's worst famine in a generation...
July 14, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - In a familiar routine, people around the world have finally seen the images of suffering and are…