This week the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that, despite decades of effort, more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM in 30 countries – in Africa ...

COMMON WISDOM #6: Women provide the bulk of labor input in African agriculture, regularly quoted to be 60 to 80%. Two messages emerge. First, the findings question prevailing assertions that ...

Conflict, climate change, and bad policy all play a role in creating the right conditions for hunger and famine. One in five people in Africa do not have access to adequate food, and not everyone is ...

The humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to worsen, with millions of lives at risk as violence spreads across the country ...

Famines are not common. When a famine is declared it means people are already dying. And the last time this happened, six years ago in the Horn of Africa, the cause was a natural one: drought. This ...

Irrespective of if there is a famine declaration in coming ... water and sanitation, protection, women empowerment, and cash assistance services to drought-affected populations across East Africa.

Some have likened the famine crisis in Africa to Katrina as an issue that could have been avoided. Famine has been a problem in Africa for a long time, but just as Cuba finds ways to protect its ...