New funding programs announced at COP 27 are helping poor countries transition away from fossil fuels. But the money isn’t going to places without energy. SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — New climate aid is ...

Mogadishu, Somalia - Somalia is facing the worst drought in 40 years, impacting over 8 million people, which is half of its population. The country welcomes the arrival of spring [Gu’] rains this ...

Baidoa, Somalia — Somalia is facing poverty and hunger on an unprecedented scale. Every minute of every day, another child in the East African nation is admitted to a hospital suffering from ...

As deforestation removes protection from the ferocious winds, compounding damage from climate crisis-driven drought, sand dunes are burying the medieval port of Hobyo. Will pledges to green the desert ...

The pastoral community of central Somalia’s Galmudug state is getting pulled ever deeper into a complex web of conflict as a result of climate change. In a region with a history of hostile ...

GAROWE, Somalia - Puntland state has laid strategies on promoting environmental conservation, in a project dubbed 'Green Revolution', as the world tackles severe climate change implications, among ...

Over the past three years, an extreme drought has pushed the Horn of Africa to the brink of famine, causing one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history. The dry spell forced more than 2.6 ...

AS THE SUN beats down on the dusty yellow soil and a cluster of tin shacks near the city of Galkayo, in central Somalia, mothers point to their children, looking on shyly. Then almost all express ...

Baidoa, Somalia — Almost half of the 16 million people who live in Somalia are facing extreme hunger. More than a third of the east African nation's 5 million children under the age of five are ...

Early this year, as it became clear that the effects of prolonged drought in Somalia could go from bad to catastrophic, East Africa correspondent Cara Anna and the AP’s Africa leadership team spent ...

Conflict and the growing climate crisis are pushing herders in Somalia to abandon their way of life, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned. Erratic weather patterns, droughts ...