- 15 May 2012 11:31 - Sapa-AFP
- Sub-Saharan Africa posts economic growth rates higher than the worldwide average but has the planet's greatest food security problems, the UN says.
- 21 Sep 2011 07:22 - Staff Reporter
- Sub-Saharan Africa could maintain its economic expansion in the near term, but faltering US or European recovery could threaten trade, says the IMF.
- 05 Sep 2011 14:46 - Staff Reporter
- Famine has spread to another Somali region and the UN has warned more areas will become affected in the next four months.
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- 24 Aug 2011 16:55 - Staff Reporter
- Although difficult to quantify, SA's contribution to relief efforts in Somalia exceeds R20-million so far, says Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.
- 24 Aug 2011 14:21 - Staff Reporter
- The EU's foreign affairs chief has urged world governments to meet a "moral obligation" to send aid into the drought-hit Horn of Africa.
- 13 Aug 2011 12:27 - Peter Martell
- Beneath the soaring arches of the bombed out ruins of a cathedral, families fleeing extreme drought build huts of rag and plastic for shelter.
- 05 Aug 2011 13:05 - Staff Reporter
- China has said it was paying "close attention" to a disastrous famine in the Horn of Africa after top US House Democrat urged it to do more.
- 21 Jul 2011 17:46 - Otto Bakano
- Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab rebels in Somalia will accept help from relief groups, lifting the two year ban on foreign aid.
- 16 Jul 2011 15:43 - William Davies
- The plight of millions of people left hungry by a harsh drought across the Horn of Africa is set to worsen, a top UN official has warned.
- 12 Jul 2011 19:41 - Aaron Maasho
- Across the Horn of Africa, a fierce drought is forcing more than 10-million people to rely on emergency food aid, up from a forecast of six-million.
- 28 Jun 2011 12:18 - Staff Reporter
- Ten million people in the Horn of Africa have been hit by the worst drought in 60 years, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
- 14 Apr 2009 15:39 - Staff Reporter
- A Lebanese-owned freighter, flying a Togolese flag, was seized by pirates off the Horn of Africa on Tuesday.
- 04 Feb 2009 15:45 - Paul Handley
- The way you spot a Somali pirate in a sea of fishermen, says a top French naval commander, is not the AK-47s on his skiff -- it's the ladder on deck.
- 12 Nov 2008 12:09 - Staff Reporter
- Somalia's hard-line al-Shabaab group on Wednesday took over the southern port of Merka, a key entry point for food aid.
- 02 Jul 2008 12:49 - Staff Reporter
- A deadly cocktail of calamities -- including war, drought and rising prices -- is engulfing the Horn of Africa, the UN Children's Fund has warned.
- 14 Jun 2008 12:19 - Staff Reporter
- France is providing support to Djibouti during border clashes with neighbouring Eritrea that the Djiboutian president has described as war.
