Famine

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Haiti, theGrio.com
October 1, 2024
Gang violence in Port-au-Prince has disrupted the transportation of goods and has left more than 700,000 people homeless in recent…
January 17, 2023
The head of the World Food Program says support from donors have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely…
October 22, 2022
Extreme rainfall and devastating flooding have affected 5 million people in 19 countries across West and Central Africa, according to…
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 8, 2022
The U.N. humanitarian chief predicted Tuesday that at least $1 billion will be needed urgently to avert famine in Somalia in the…
September 5, 2022
When famine was declared in parts of Somalia in 2011, the deaths of a quarter-million people were well underway.
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…
December 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Budding filmmaker Nathan Araya and his friends have created a documentary 'Sincerely, Ethiopia' which tackles the media’s…
February 10, 2012
It has only been a month since the United Nations announced that the famine was over in Somalia...
February 9, 2012
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Rapper 50 Cent is teaming up with the World Food Program to see firsthand the effects…
December 22, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is announcing an additional $113 million in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa...
November 18, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The number of famine zones in Somalia was cut in half Friday, as U.S. and U.N.…
November 10, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - As Minhaj Gedi Farah lay silently on a hospital bed three months ago, even his mother…
October 5, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Would it be too far-fetched to imagine a coalition of African-American celebrities united as a voice for…
September 16, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The U.N. says Somali children are more likely to die before they turn 5 than those…
September 6, 2011
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) - Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour says African artists should take the initiative to help families affected by…
August 30, 2011
DOLO, Somalia (AP) - Eid al-Fitr is traditionally celebrated with grand feasts in which delicacies are in abundance after fasting…
August 25, 2011
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - "This is what we pledged today, it is new money and exclusively African," said AU…
August 17, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - More than 12 million people need food aid in drought-struck East Africa. More than 2 million…
August 16, 2011
GENEVA (AP) - WFP said it is bringing 5,000 tons a month of food into the capital of Mogadishu to…