As the G8 leaders sit down at Camp David this week, it is to be hoped that the attention of the world's media won't be on what they will be eating or what their partners are wearing as has happened at previous summits. If, as is expected, a new food...

When I wrote back in January that we need to talk about the risk of famine in Niger, I had no idea then that an already very complex situation was about to see yet another twist in the tale develop.

Since then, thousands have left Mali for neighbouring Niger to...

Millions at risk of food shortages. Acutely malnourished infants with scarcely enough energy to move. Pastoralists with no means to keep the animals that are their economic lifeblood alive.

Sounds familiar right? Only it's not the same old story. For this is not the Horn of...