Each of these women had undergone FGM early in their lives, and now, encouraged by my mother, they were talking frankly about how they felt. One of them spoke of the agony that the procedure still caused her three decades later.

Sauti Ya Wanawake (Voice for Women) is working in the coastal region of Kenya to educate women about the electoral process and provide advice on staying safe on the day. As a non-partisan organisation, we are calling on all parties to hold peaceful campaigns and for the authorities to ensure sufficient police presence at the polling stations so that women and men feel safe when voting.

The horror of the previous ballots seems to have left a superstition in the country - that the word 'election' cannot be used without being followed within the next 30 seconds by 'peace'.

Supporting ONE and the programs it fights for is less about charitable handouts and more about hopeful investment in the future, for the countries they help as well as our own.

This week Save the Children and Oxfam released a damning report about the failure of the international community to heed the warnings of the spreading nutritional crisis in East Africa quickly enough. This "dangerous delay" they say, cost lives.

The fact remains though that we need to talk about famine. Perhaps not in the technical UN-defined sense of the word. But in the dictionary sense of the word: extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area. With so many lives potentially at stake, now is not the time to dodge the issue.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been offered a taste of a special high-protein peanut paste which is sent to malnourished children in Africa. ...

Camp Anonymous in East Africa is intending to join the global movement known as Occupy. They've got tents, some basic sanitation and people wandering ...

Somehow a disaster affecting 11 million people is being ignored and the longer it takes for policymakers to act, the more people will die. That isn't hard to understand at all.

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Desperate parents are abandoning their children at the world's largest refugee camp, Save the Children has warned. Dadaab is a...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Aid parcels aimed at saving the lives of thousands of malnourished children in Africa have been flown out of Britain as the Unite...

The United Nations has begun airlifting food supplies into the rebel-held areas of Somalia, amid reports that half a million children in East Africa h...

Choking droughts in East Africa could result in a human catastrophe unless the world community is prepared to give immediate help, International Devel...