Toronto Maple Leafs fans need no reminder that their team holds the record for the longest active Stanley Cup drought in NHL history. But, over the weekend, a young Canucks fan decided to add to their misery. Sheldon Dries (15) of the
Food security experts say life remains “extremely critical” for more than 6 million hungry people in Somalia’s historic drought, but they no longer project famine for the worst-hit population of nearly a quarter-million people between April and June. The latest assessment released
With the prospect of a sixth consecutive failed rainy season in the east and Horn of Africa, Kenya’s president is hoping the heavens will finally open with the help of a national day of mass prayer on Tuesday. William Ruto announced the
Almost seven million of the east African nation’s population of 17m are facing acute food shortages. And some 1.8 million children are thought to be at risk of malnutrition, according to the United Nations. Somalia’s drought is the worst in 40 years,
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Human shields and drones, famine and terrorists and China’s Belt and Road. That’s the toxic cocktail that is Somalia today, stirred by a superpower struggle clothed in diplomatic niceties from Washington and Beijing. A country where real agendas