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Without urgent humanitarian aid, famine is projected to emerge later this year in three areas in Somalia’s southeastern Bay region

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ukraine’s president says tons of grain from his country will arrive in the coming weeks in Somalia, where famine approaches and the global crises of food security and climate change put millions at risk.

The U.N. humanitarian chief predicts at least a billion dollars will be needed urgently to avert famine in Somalia.

Millions of people in the region are facing food shortages due to the worst drought in 40 years and rising global food costs.The Horn of Africa region

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that almost all Ukraine's grain was transported to the EU countries. Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Wednesday, Putin warned that an unprecedented humanitarian...

The United Nations says “famine is at the door” in Somalia with “concrete indications” famine will occur later this year in the southern Bay region....

The United Nations warns that Somalia is on the brink of famine for the second time in just over a decade.

The fifth drought in as many years has brought Somalia to the brink, raising fears of a deadly famine. Hundreds of children have already died from severe acute malnutrition.

In mid-August a ship chartered by the World Food Program left the Ukrainian port of Odessa carrying 23,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat.