HORN OF AFRICA: Greater food insecurity forecast

NAIROBI, 5 April 2012 (IRIN) - Food insecurity in the eastern Horn of Africa is expected to worsen as a result of less rain than previously forecast falling in the key March-to-May season. 

The US Agency for International Development’s Famine and Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) warned that rainfall in this period would be 60-85 percent of the long-term average and that there was a 30 percent chance of the lower figure materializing. 

Africa Must Invest its Primary Education Sector

In this century, education will be the greatest tool for success much more than it has been in the last half of the twentieth century. This is particularly true in Africa, where most countries spend huge sum of their GDP (including the international aid) on military and defense build-ups. In a world that is increasingly becoming more interdependent and interconnected through commerce, political, and social issues, it is unwise to focus on the strength of military capability while downplaying the importance of education, which is the source of every prosperous society.

CSPAJ Condemns the Horrific Killing of Civilians in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab

Press Release

October 05, 2011
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The Center for Somali Peace and Justice (CSPAJ) is horrified by the heinous crime of Tuesday October 04, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia, which resulted in massive massacre, destruction and attack on innocent people.

CNN: Interview with Bono and K'naan about the femine in Somalia

60 Minutes: 'Miracle' Food Saves Lives

UN raises E Africa appeal to $2.48bn

Friday, July 29, 2011

Geneva - The UN raised its Horn of Africa humanitarian appeal on Friday to $2.48bn for 12.4 million drought-hit people, warning that famine could spread across the region if donors default.

More than a million children in Southern Somalia in need of lifesaving assistance

NEW YORK (July 29, 2011) — With an estimated 1.25 million children across southern Somalia in urgent need of lifesaving care and 640,000 children acutely malnourished, UNICEF calls for all actors to make saving children's lives the top priority and to urgently support all efforts to reach children in need.

Somalia famine: UN WFP to airlift food to Mogadishu

The BBC's Andrew Harding says getting aid deeper into Somalia "is very slow, very complicated and... very dangerous""

The UN World Food Programme will begin airlifting food to Somalia on Tuesday, WFP head Josette Sheeran said at crisis talks on East Africa's drought.
This will be the first airlift of food aid since the UN declared a famine in two areas of Somalia last week.

Somalia Famine Relief Poses Challenges for International Community

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Photo: AP

Somalis displaced by drought wait to receive food in their makeshift camp in Mogadishu, July 23, 2011.The United Nations has urged “massive” action to save millions of people in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa region. One challenge for the international community is logistical – getting enough food to areas that need it as soon as possible.

Somalis flee famine along ‘roads of death’

DOLO, Somalia — The displaced first began coming through Dolo, just a few miles from the Ethiopian border, in March. Now, the trickle has become a flood. The new arrivals clutch small bags of clothes and other meager possessions. Their children are thin, some emaciated. Almost every child appears small for his or her age. But they are the fortunate ones: They have survived their journeys, at least for now.