PRINT EMAIL Photo: Abdul Majeed Goraya/IRIN Once again, people living in Sindh and elsewhere have been hit by floods KARACHI, 5 September 2011 (IRIN) - Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh is facing disaster once more with heavy rains ove...

PRINT EMAIL A man scoops water from a hole dug in a river bed HOLA-KINANGO, 1 September 2011 (IRIN) - Drought conditions in parts of Kenya have worsened an already poor food security situation, which has been exacerbated by high food and fu...

PRINT EMAIL Torrential rains and flooding could affect food security by spoiling the current harvest, an aid worker said (file photo) MBALE, 18 August 2011 (IRIN) - The long dry spell in the eastern Ugandan district of Bulambuli that left t...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Mohammad Popal/IRIN Food insecurity looks set to rise KABUL, 9 August 2011 (IRIN) - Ongoing drought in northern, northeastern and western Afghanistan is likely to push 1.5-2 million more people into food insecurity this au...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Mohamed Amin Jibril/IRIN Although the number of drought-displaced families reaching Mogadishu has dropped, the situation in the Afgoye corridor is deteriorating, aid officials say BAIDOA, 8 August 2011 (IRIN) - Humanitaria...

PRINT EMAIL Farmer John Kariuki has had to feed the cabbages to his cows NJORO, 5 August 2011 (IRIN) - Harvests are going to waste in parts of Rift Valley province - Kenya's grain basket - as farmers lack markets for their produce, even tho...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Gwenn Dubourthoumieu/IRIN Kenya is facing a humanitarian emergency but is not at the famine phase NAIROBI, 5 August 2011 (IRIN) - The Horn of Africa is facing what has been called the worst drought in 60 years, with an est...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: UN Photo/Stuart Price A woman holds her malnourished baby as she queues for food at an IDP camp in Mogadishu MOGADISHU/NAIROBI/DADAAB, 4 August 2011 (IRIN) - Even as the UN announced that famine had spread to more areas in...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN Residents of Gither: Villagers have to pay to fuel the government-hired trucks to bring in water MANDERA/WAJIR, 2 August 2011 (IRIN) - Several hundred thousand people in northeastern Kenya are just a s...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN A Somali TFG soldier on the border between Bulo Hawo, the Somali town and Mandera town in northeastern Kenya MANDERA/BULO HAWO, 1 August 2011 (IRIN) - Mandera town, on the border between Kenya, Ethiopi...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Mohamed Amin Jibril/IRIN The drought-displaced families lack food, shelter and water (file photo) LAS-ANOD, 29 July 2011 (IRIN) - Hundreds of families from south-central Somalia who have sought refuge in the self-declared ...

Photo: Ahmed Orko Nur/IRIN Ainul Hoque has been displaced for a week COX’S BAZAR, 26 July 2011 (IRIN) - Heavy flooding in southeastern Bangladesh has forced more than 20,000 people from their homes in Cox’s Bazar and Teknaf districts, say l...

A family outside their damaged home in Tarlay Sub-Township YANGON, 26 July 2011 (IRIN) - Heavy rains pounding earthquake-struck Southern Shan State continue to hinder efforts to rebuild the homes of quake survivors, agencies say.Of the 837 hou...

Photo: Courtesy of Nepal Red Cross Society Dozens of people have been killed KATHMANDU, 25 July 2011 (IRIN) - Officials warn of further landslide deaths following heavy rains throughout the end of the monsoon season.“We have noticed intermitt...

Tents in Pakistan. The fact that many people live in indequate housing puts them at greater risk when calamity occurs ISLAMABAD, 22 July 2011 (IRIN) - Muhammad Gul has built a stone wall around his home in a village near Mingora, the main city...

Photo: Hannah McNeish/IRIN Flood waters in Madagascar after Cyclone Bingiza struck the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar on 14 February 2011 JOHANNESBURG, 21 July 2011 (IRIN) - The death toll in southern Africa during the 2010-2011 rainy seaso...

Photo: Mohamed Amin Jibril/IRIN Many of the drought-displaced lack access to shelter, food or water in Mogadishu MOGADISHU, 21 July 2011 (IRIN) - Heavy rains have fallen in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, making life harder for thousands of pe...

Photo: Mohamed Amin Jibril/IRIN Thousands displaced by the drought are seeking shelter in Mogadishu MOGADISHU/NAIROBI, 20 July 2011 (IRIN) - The humanitarian crisis in Somalia has degenerated into a famine in two regions and could get worse bec...

Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN Livestock carcasses dot southern Borena zone of Oromiya region BORENA (OROMIYA REGION), 18 July 2011 (IRIN) - Last October, the elders in Borena zone of Oromiya region in southern Ethiopia predicted that the main rai...

Expected flooding between August and September could exacerbate food insecurity for up to 4.5 million Ethiopians (file photo) ADDIS ABABA, 14 July 2011 (IRIN) - While the ongoing drought has seriously undermined the food security of up to 4.5 ...

The damage to infrastructure that Pakistan suffered during the 2010 floods is estimated at US$10 billion (file photo) ISLAMABAD, 12 July 2011 (IRIN) - Nearly one year after devastating floods swamped vast tracts of land across Pakistan, affect...

Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN Shokuri Abdullai, like most mothers in Bisle, feeds her family boiled maize in the Somali region's Shinile zone BISLE (SOMALI REGION), 12 July 2011 (IRIN) - Every day, 500g of boiled wheat is divided up between two a...

The drought in Somalia has spread to areas previously not drought-prone, displacing thousands of families (file photo) NAIROBI, 11 July 2011 (IRIN) - Civil society groups are rallying together to help the vulnerable as the drought ravaging Som...

Pasture, grazing land and migration routes traditionally used in emergencies are no longer available (file photo) NAIROBI, 4 July 2011 (IRIN) - A severe drought ravaging the arid and semi-arid parts of the Horn of Africa region is threatening ...