The United Nations World Food Programme, which relies on the U.S. for nearly half its budget, is closing its Southern Africa ...

The documentary by Intl. Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker Rehad Desai shows a country's struggle to safeguard the supply of ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of US$ 2 million from the Government of Japan to support over 27,000 people affected by drought in southern Angola. This funding ...

Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches ...

To protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of plants that can survive months ...

The U.N.'s World Food Programme is closing its Southern Africa bureau due to severe funding constraints, primarily caused by U.S. aid cuts. The U.S., previously donating nearly half of WFP's budget, ...

Human-induced climate change worsened the severity of the 2021-2022 drought in the Horn of Africa, a new study has revealed. During that period, Eastern Africa experienced one of its worst droughts in ...

In early 2018, as South Africa’s Western Cape region was in the midst of a yearslong drought that brought its reservoirs to historically low levels, residents of Cape Town and its surroundings b ...

Miller’s 67-ball innings also provided some consolation for South Africa, who will now look to the next global white-ball event to end their title drought stretching to the 1998 ICC Knockout Trophy — ...

southern Somalia, and eastern Kenya. The study reveals that from October 2020 to early 2023, the eastern Africa region experienced five consecutive failed rainy seasons, resulting in the worst drought ...