The recent African carnage is by no means new. During a 100-day period in 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, were killed. There were an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 Ugandans ...

Sudan's warring parties are blocking delivery of food aid. The crisis is a grim example of what happens when a key part of the global system for combating famine falters.

How to finance environmental priorities and shift the focus from Africa as victim of floods and famine will be central to the debate at the continent's first climate summit next week, while ...

Famine has officially been declared in the Darfur region of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of people under siege have fled their homes during the country’s 15-month civil war, two ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Endemic violence in Central African Republic is pushing the country towards famine with 63 percent of the population already needing emergency aid, the U.N. humanitarian ...