Severe drought has left more than 500,000 children under age 5 at risk of death from famine this year in Somalia. Mothers and babies at the UNICEF-supported health and nutrition center at a camp ...

On a mission to Mogadishu this week, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said that the current situation appears even worse than in 2011, when famine last struck Somalia, killing over 250,000 people.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rania Dagash-Kamara, UNICEF's Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, about the crisis of food insecurity in Somalia as a result of extreme drought.

a spokesperson for UNICEF said on Tuesday. The situation in Somalia already looks worse now than in 2011, the spokesperson told a briefing in Geneva, when famine killed more than 250,000 people in ...

At least 500 children have died this year of malnutrition as Somalia deals with record-breaking drought, the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. UNICEF Somalia says the death toll is just the ...

In the last eight years, some 30 million people have undergone the procedure, in which external genitalia are partially or fully removed, UNICEF estimated ... the report said. Somalia tops the ...

Between Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, more than 20 million children face the threat of severe hunger, thirst and disease during the drought, reported UNICEF in December. That is double the amount ...

Wafaa Saeed Abdelatef, the UNICEF representative in Somalia, said children and women make up more than 80 percent of Somalia's displaced population, and children are among the most severely ...

We need urgent funding to continue providing treatment to thousands of children in Somalia suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Specifically, UNICEF has major concerns about 18 of Somalia’s ...

MOGADISHU, Dec 5 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday appealed for US$171 million to support 1.8 million people, including 1.1 million children, in Somalia in 2025, reported ...