Among the youngest in the hospital in Baidoa, in Somalia's parched south, was Amir. Just over a year old, he was not only underweight but suffering with diarrhea and a fever. If he hadn't made it ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Oct. 6 -- An Italian aid worker who dedicated 33 years of her life to helping Somalis was shot and killed outside the hospital she founded to treat tuberculosis patients ...

The death earlier this month at Banadir Hospital captured the agony of a growing number of Somalis who are unable to feed ...

Yusuf, a former military leader from northern Somalia who helped overthrow the dictatorship of Maj. Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, checked into a hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, after abruptly ...

Decades of vaccination efforts had pushed the virus into one last corner of the world: Somalia. Maalin, then a hospital cook near Mogadishu, caught smallpox while driving an infected family to a ...

After two days in a small Somali hospital, Abdiwali Abdi seemed to be groping his way towards some sort of recovery. The two-year-old still weighed just 4.6kg (10lb 2oz) - not much more than a ...

The closures of feeding centers, the layoffs of health workers, and the absence of critical supplies have left families like ...

Somalia, like Ethiopia and Kenya ... which is why she told Save the Children staff she could not take Malaika to the hospital — she had to ensure that her other children were cared for.

(Lily Martin/CBC) UNICEF estimates that since August, one child has been sent to hospital for malnutrition every minute in Somalia. The last famine the country endured, in 2011, killed more than a ...

The district hospital in Dollow - a dusty little border town in south-western Somalia - has been quietly assisting children like Abdiwali for years. Funded by the UK government, and others ...