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