Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has expressed some reticence about declaring a famine, apparently fearing ... At Baidoa’s main hospital, Dr. Said Yusuf admits at least eight patients ...

In East Africa, there's growing concern that a food crisis could lead to famine in Somalia. The country is ... a camp adjacent to where Kasim lives, Dr. Ali Nur Mohamed says the number of severely ...

Somalia is suffering one ... showing telltale signs of famine. Due to the crisis. 1.5 million children are now malnourished across the region. Dr. Mustafa Yusuf is one of the leading doctors ...

An official declaration of famine would unleash aid and attention. Some experts say Somalia shows that the international ... At Baidoa’s main hospital, Dr. Said Yusuf admits at least eight ...

Somalia is teetering on the edge of a full-scale famine There's growing concern that ... At a bare-bones health clinic in a camp in Baidoa, Dr. Ali Nur Mohamed says the number of severely ...

(Lily Martin/CBC) At the bedside of one-year-old Miida, Dr. Abdulaziz Osman gingerly ... focused elsewhere this year, Somalia has slipped deeper into crisis. A famine is knocking.

Hospital admissions for children are rising quickly, said Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim at Baidoa ... The last declared famine in Somalia in 2011 killed a quarter of a million people. If more food aid ...

Young children are dying in growing numbers in Somalia amid the worst drought ... alarm for months about an impending famine in this south-western region, Dr Abdullahi said his hospital was ...

Part of the reason that Somalia avoided a full-blown famine included the boost in funding ... died over the whole year. Dr. Ali Haji Adam Abubakar, the Somali minister of health, warned in a ...

In an interview with VOA Somali, Dr. Najib Isse Dirie ... of five failed rainy seasons that brought parts of Somalia to the brink of famine. “During the drought and after, the people experienced ...