A woman sits with her child at a local hospital as she receive treatment for malnutrition at the border town of Dadaab, Kenya. Schalk van Zuydam / AP A Somali child from southern Somalia is ...

the UN is warning of famine in parts of Somalia within months. January 2019 marked the start of the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history. With children in DRC at great risk, our teams worked to ...

such as at least 30% of a country's children suffering from severe malnutrition. Famines are not common. When a famine is declared it means people are already dying. And the last time this happened, ...

Gregory Shay, a retired pediatric pulmonologist from California, spent October treating children in Gaza, and to him it looked like famine was ... at the crux of South Africa’s case accusing ...

Irrespective of if there is a famine declaration in coming ... protocol to scale treatment and save children’s lives, both today and in the future. Shashwat Saraf, IRC’s Emergency Director for East ...

Right now, hundreds of thousands of children ... the "Famine Early Warning Systems Network" (FEWSNET). FEWSNET was set up by the U.S. government in 1985 to collect and analyze data from various ...

The three-year-old Somali boy winces as he’s placed in a harness to be weighed by medical staff in the dusty Horn of Africa ... mother, Faadumo Hussein. “And this drought has now made my ...

start bringing attention to this silent war and silent famine.” The warnings come as HRW called for the United Nations and ...