In this fact sheet, we will look at the history of hunger in Africa and current trends, review the unique characteristics and challenges of each of the five subregions, discuss why hunger is so persistent on the continent, and touch on some of the solutions that are making a difference.
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Somalia has had no functioning government since January 1991, when former President Siyad Barre was ousted. Since then, fighting between warlords, government forces and various alliances of Islamist insurgents has resulted in the deaths of thousands of Somalis and displaced hundreds of thousands mo...
Amina Abdalla, a 45-year-old mother of seven, lives in northern Kenya's Marsabit District, where life is a daily struggle for scarce water and pasture. Abdalla's family lives on about 10 litres of water per day, far below the 20-50 litres per person per day recommended by the UN. She told IRIN/Pl...
The warring parties in Somalia should ease rather than thwart the humanitarian effort to deal with drought and famine, a human rights group said on Monday. Human Rights Watch accused all sides involved in the 20-year conflict of contributing to Somalia's humanitarian catastrophe by committing ser...
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Three new areas of Somalia have been classified as having been hit by famine, the UN says. It declared a famine in two large southern regions of the war-torn country in July....
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DAKAR, Senegal — President Obama hosted four recently elected West African presidents on Friday in a gesture of support for the continent’s nascent democracies. Given what they are wrestling with, they could certainly use it....
ARUA, Uganda — Jennifer Anguko was slowly bleeding to death right in the maternity ward of a major public hospital. Only a lone midwife was on duty, the hospital later admitted, and no doctor examined her for 12 hours. An obstetrician who investigated the case said Ms. Anguko, the mother of three ...
n his village, Kiliwehiri in northeastern Kenya, Abdullah Mohamed is known as "that mentally disturbed man". "It is difficult to be normal after you have watched your entire life's savings get wiped out before your eyes," said Ibrahim Abdi, assistant chief of the village. "We are Somalis, we look...
Here, in the aid and development hub of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, most of those involved in the relief efforts across the Horn of Africa are too busy to get distracted by finger-pointing....
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