Beira- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambican President Armando Guebuza says drought in the central province of Sofala is worsening the level of poverty in the country. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- More than a quarter of a million households, or over one million people have been affected by drought in southern and central Mozambique this year, according to latest official figures. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Mozambique's National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) said it would in partnership with UN agencies, continue to monitor the impact of drought in south and central parts of the country where some 150,000 people are currently receiving food aid. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- UNICEF has called for urgent emergency relief for thousands of Kenyan children at risk from continuing drought. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- About 600,000 people in Afar Region of eastern Ethiopia require immediate food relief assistance, according to reports by UN and non-governmental agencies operating in the drought-hit pastoral region. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Ethiopia's Somali region is threatened by a drought on the scale of previous disasters, says a United Nations rapid response report obtained here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has appealed to donors to provide $3. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- China on Monday offered to help Kenya develop water conservation facilities to enable the country harvest and store rain water for use during the dry spells. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Drought has forced wild animals, including elephants, out of the Aberdare national park in central Kenya to invade farmlands and destroy crops in areas around the reserve. Full text...

Mogadishu- Somalia (PANA) -- What locals describe as an unprecedented drought has forced thousands of pastoralists in Somalia to move to less affected areas, especially along the border with Ethiopia. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Commission has approved a two-million-Euro humanitarian aid for drought victims in Lesotho and Swaziland, EU sources said in Brussels Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Somalia, Maxwell Gaylard and officials of aid agencies have expressed great concern about the worsening drought in northern Somalia. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The UN Humanitarian Coordinator Maxwell Gaylard and other senior officials have expressed "concern" over the deepening humanitarian situation in war-torn Somalia, now ravaged by drought. Full text...

Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Poor rainfall in four Mozambican provinces in the southern and central regions has left inhabitants still dependent on food aid, the Maputo daily "Noticias" reported Friday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Eastern Cape farmers are facing a state of emergency as they battle a regional drought, which has dried up boreholes and threatened their livestock. Full text...

Mbabane- Swaziland (PANA) -- Swaziland's National Disaster Task Force (NDTF) has convened an emergency meeting, warning that the country was heading for one of the worst droughts yet in its history. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The ecosystem of South Africa's Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, a World Heritage Site, is seriously threatened by lingering drought, according to Park officials. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Officials at Kenya's drought early warning system have sounded an alert over looming drought in parts of Kajiado bordering Tanzania, following a prolonged dry spell in the largely arid and semi-arid district. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Using assistance from the Norwegian government, UNICEF has begun distributing water supply equipment in Ethiopia's drought affected regions where an estimated 4. Full text...

Addis Ababa Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa has urged donor agencies and development partners to focus on bringing about sustainable development in Ethiopia. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopia's early warning system has come under severe criticism for ignoring the accumulated experience of peasants and pastoralists in predicting natural disasters. Full text...

Addis Ababa Ethiopia (PANA) -- US Congressman Frank R. Full text...

Bissau- Guinea-Bissau (PANA) -- Guinea Bissau owes 28 million CFA francs in contribution arrears to the Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), according to sources at the country's Agriculture Ministry. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- UNICEF executive director Carol Bellamy has warned that drought-related illnesses in the Horn of Africa were severely affecting the population, particularly women and children. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- A Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) report issued Thursday by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) warned that Ethiopia could face an unprecedented drought that would leave 14 million people in desperate need of food aid. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- United States Agency for International Development's Early Warning System warned Thursday 14 million people would need food aid in Ethiopia due to an unprecedented drought. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Much of Zambia is currently at risk of food shortage as a result of a devastating drought, which has seen farmers re-plant fields at great cost with little hope of any meaningful yields. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya will require at least 480 million US dollars to recover from the unprecedented drought that hit the country last year, according to a report on the disaster launched in Nairobi Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Heavy rains which are rendering roads in many parts of Sudan impassable, have forced the UN World Food Programme to expand its food airlift to new locations in order to reach some 200,000 people cut off from help. Full text...