The international authority on hunger crises says the Gaza Strip is still at risk of famine more than a year into the ...

Famine, the ‘F-word’ of the humanitarian sector, is only used when a food crisis, usually caused by multiple factors, has reached a calamitous stage. It is rare, but when it does occur, it means there ...

Ind., 2008, 271 p. (en) Ioan M. Lewis, Understanding Somalia and Somaliland : culture, history, society, Hurst & Company, Londres, 2008, 139 p.

The returned Somali fighters established a Salafi militant organization al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) during this time. Shortly after, Somalia descended into civil war, culminating in the collapse ...

EXTERMINATION works. At first. This is the terrible lesson of history. If Israel is not stopped — and no outside power ...

and (particularly in the later stages of the Famine) compassion fatigue bordering on indifference. John Kelly’s The Graves are Walking: The History of the Great Irish Famine reflects this school of ...

LUUQ, Somalia - Members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have reportedly taken over airports in western parts of Somalia, a move that could trigger diplomatic fallout and possible war ...

Fighting for Peace in Somalia provides the first comprehensive analysis of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an operation deployed in 2007 to stabilize the country and defend its ...

Tensions between the Horn of Africa countries increased on January 1, when Addis Ababa signed a deal with another northern region of Somalia – the breakaway territory of Somaliland – which gives ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) estimates that 85 percent of Somali children are not enrolled in school. Widespread food insecurity and famine have been issues that have plagued ...

Harvests have yielded little, and water sources have dried up. While famine has so far been averted in Somalia, mostly due to a stepped-up humanitarian response, people continue to battle ...