Just months after deadly floods, East Africa is likely to experience insufficient rainfall, highlighting the growing threat of climate change for a region with some of the world’s poorest economies.

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Oxfam has raised only $168-million of the $574-million that the group says it needs for emergency food aid following a drought in East Africa, reports Reuters. Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia were the ...

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DENAN, ETHIOPIA - Two months ago Ayan Abdi struggled to tell her newborn twins apart. Tragically, she has no difficulty now. The skin of her malnourished son Nemo stretches tightly over his tiny ...

The findings of a recent NASA study that connects the decline of rainfall in East Africa with warmer sea temperatures in the Indian Ocean are consistent with the experiences described by Climate ...

Music superstars including Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Madonna and U2 are teaming up to launch a huge social networking campaign to raise awareness and money for millions of children facing starvation in ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Drought for a fifth year running is driving more than 23 million east Africans in seven countries toward severe hunger and destitution, international aid agency Oxfam said on ...

Amid whipped cream pies that miss Rupert Murdoch's face and the ongoing game of "Where's Casey Anthony?", much more urgent news is getting lost in the noise. The worst drought in 60 years is ...