Africa
TV show to promote farming as ‘cool’ for youth
Four young farmers, two each from Kenya and Tanzania, are part of the first agriculture reality TV show, Don’t Lose the Plot, where participants will battle it out for a $10,000 prize. The show is an endeavour to change the perception of farming among Kenyan and Tanzanian youth in an effort to mak...
Children of Somali diaspora in Canada come together to fend off famine
A new generation of young Somali-Canadians is looking to raise both money and awareness of the looming disaster in their parents' homeland — and hope the international community will act before it's too late....
Satellite images trigger payouts for Kenyan farmers in grip of drought
Innovative insurance scheme gives a lifeline to vulnerable pastoralists, as three years of poor rains kill thousands of livestock across northern Kenya....
Fall armyworm spreads to East Africa
As millions of east African farmers seek to recover from a devastating drought, they face a new threat – the fall armyworm. The pest has been recently detected in Kenya and is suspected to have entered the country from Uganda. It is also known to be present in Burundi, Ethiopia and Rwanda. ...
Drought-hit Somalia moves closer to famine, says aid group
Life-threatening child malnutrition rates are rising to alarming levels in drought-hit Somalia, the international aid group Save the Children said Thursday....
How Boko Haram Spreads Hunger Beyond Nigeria’s Boarders
The Lake Chad Basin region—which straddles areas of northeastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, southern Niger and western Chad—is facing a hunger crisis....
U.N. food agency launches $250 million Zimbabwe plan to end hunger
The UN World Food Programme on Monday pledged $253 million to fund a five-year plan to end hunger in Zimbabwe, which is emerging from a devastating drought that left more than 4 million people in need of food aid last year....
Hunger amplifies infectious diseases for millions fleeing the violence of Boko Haram
Already a huge and chronic problem in Nigeria, malaria soars during conflict and natural disasters....
Nobody Wants To Drop Food From A Plane. But It’s Happening
Air drops of food, seen by the development community as a last resort, are going on in South Sudan....
Fighting Famine in War-Torn South Sudan
In South Sudan, 5M people don't know where their next meal is coming from and, of them, 100,000 are starving and face death. If not for humanitarian efforts, millions could die....
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