Famine Returns to Somalia

The UN declares a famine in the southern Somalia region as it suffers its worst drought in 50 years.

What Makes This A Famine

Only last week food security experts were reluctant to call the situation in East Africa a famine.

What Constitutes a Famine?

Why scientists and people in the food aid world disagree on labeling the food crisis in East Africa as ‘famine?’

Horn of Africa

Today’s Geo Quiz is about a geological event taking place slowly in the Horn of Africa. Since 2005, scientists have been studying a 35-mile long crack in the Earth’s surface in Ethiopia…

Recruiting Somalis in Kenya

Somalia has experienced almost constant conflict since the collapse of its central government in 1991. The long-running instability has created misery for its people. And it’s spilled over into its east African neighbor, Kenya, home to many ethnic Somalis. Heba Aly has the story of one Kenyan community that’s lost one of its young men to the insurgency.

Somalia conflict leaks over the border

Correspondent Heba Aly has the story of a young man from central Kenya who went to fight with the insurgents in Somalia. He’s believed to have blown himself up in a suicide bombing. Now his family and friends worry that other young men from his village will follow his path. Listen

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