[Reuters] U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday that close to 2 million children are at risk of starving to death as the Horn of Africa faces one of its worst droughts in decades.

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Speaker Ekwee Ethuro. (Photo: David Gichuru/Standard) Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro has called for urgent international ...

We're starting to believe starvation was meant for us," she says ... "At the United Nations, we have a programme for the Horn of Africa, which includes Kenya, precisely for these needs," he ...

Famine was declared in February 2017 in South Sudan, where some 100,000 people are facing starvation and a million more are on the brink ... And the last time this happened, six years ago in the Horn ...

It is estimated that more than US$400 million was claimed in ransoms for pirate acts between April 2005 and December 2012. 179 ships were hijacked off the coast of Somalia and the Horn of Africa ...

Poverty may not create international terrorists, but poverty, social turmoil, starvation, lack of infrastructure and weak political systems attract them. East Africa and the Horn suffer from all of ...

The U.N. agency has previously raised concerns over the rise in irregular migration from Horn ... to starvation,” he told the AP. Abdulkadir Burgal, the director of the Africa Department at ...