At least 730 children in Somalia have already died from severe acute malnutrition. UNICEF calls for more support as deteriorating conditions lead areas of Somalia's Bay region to the brink of famine.

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.

More than 700 children have died in Somalia nutrition centres: UN. The Horn of Africa is on track for a fifth-consecutive failed rainy season and UNICEF has warned of a coming famine in parts of ...

Somalia has suffered droughts throughout its history, Chinyama with UNICEF says, but now they are more frequent. "So, for example, now in 2022, we have a drought. The last one was in 2017," he says.

Geneva — UNICEF warns that an unprecedented number of children are likely to die in drought-stricken, famine prone Somalia without greater, immediate action from the international community to ...

For the first time in nearly eight years, a cabinet member has visited Somalia. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s trip to Mogadishu comes as the region faces one of the world ...

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 the Horn of Africa country. Sign up here.

8 January 2018 – One million children aged six months to 10 years in Puntland and 4.2 million across Somalia were reached during a five-day measles campaign that wrapped up on Sunday, the United ...

Mogadishu, Somalia -- In a stark revelation highlighting the deepening humanitarian crisis in Somalia, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported that 63 percent of Somali children ...

While marking World Breastfeeding Week this year, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) in Somalia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) called for a ...

While marking World Breastfeeding Week this year, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) in Somalia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) called for a ...

Hundreds of children have already died in nutrition centres across Somalia, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global body warned that parts of Somalia will be hit ...