Millions of people around the world live with acute hunger. NPR's Leila Fadel talks with a mother of eleven who has survived a famine in Somalia brought on by drought and years of conflict.

No famine has been formally declared in Gaza. Here’s a look at what famine means and how the world finds out when one exists.

The starvation of Gaza can be measured in the jutting ribs of a 6-year-old girl. In the twig-like thinness of her arms. In ...

On the morning of May 15, Miran Mohammad was helping her grandfather bake bread at his home in Beit Lahia, a town in northern ...

Grabbing her daughter’s feeble arm, Asmaa al-Arja pulls a shirt over the 2-year-old’s protruding ribs and swollen belly. The ...

"We don't know if we have the capacity," she said. This month, CARE International said Somalia had 1.8 million severely malnourished children under five, with 479,000 at risk of dying without ...

After his home in the Somali capital was battered by torrential rains, Mohamed Abdukadir Teesto worries about his future at a time when local and foreign aid is vanishing. The Horn of Africa ...

A dead tiger kept in a freezer for months, animals found dead, sick, starving and never examined by a veterinarian, rotting food and rat droppings were among the numerous violations West Coast ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide bomber in the Somali capital on Sunday targeted young recruits waiting to register at a military camp, killing at least 13 and wounding 21 others, witnesses said.