Famine Threat Stalks Africa. By Bootie Cosgrove-Mather. May 29, 2002 / 5:01 PM EDT / Reuters ... Lesotho and Swaziland where at least 10 million people were threatened by potential famine, ...

This famine is the worst one to hit in 20 years, says Mark Bowden, humanitarian coordinator for Somalia. To read more click here . Below, pictures from the region.

When photojournalist Betty Press lived in Africa from 1987 to 2009, she wanted to show a continent different than the one usually portrayed in the media — one of poverty, war and famine.

Famine victims in Kenya. Children are the most vulnerable during a famine. At the beginning of August the US estimated that 29,000 children under five had perished from the famine over the past 90 ...

2006-04-23 04:00:00 PDT Abdi Gab, Kenya-- For four days, the emaciated men, women and children of Abdi Gab sat around an empty 5,000-quart black plastic water tank. Most of their livestock was ...

Aid workers in Africa are attempting to draw attention to the shortage of financial support affecting millions in Africa threatened by famine. A joint statement issued on April 21 by the aid ...

Between 2010 and 2012, some 260,000 people died in famine in Somalia – and the world was too slow to react, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia said.

The agencies painted a grim picture of the situation in the impoverished country, saying that 100,000 people are at risk of starvation and that 1 million more are on the brink of famine.

Southern Africa is facing its worst famine in living memory unless there is immediate international action, the aid agency Concern has warned. "We're going to see a famine of huge proportions and ...

Multiply Sabirin by hundreds of thousands, and you begin to see the picture. The United Nations cites estimates that as the crisis escalates toward famine , 1.8 million Somali children under 5 ...

NAIROBI – African governments must make more substantial donations to the international relief effort aiding the more than 12 million people affected by the Horn of Africa drought and famine, an ...