This kind of article is designed to make the rest of us feel guilty and "help" .....
Of course it would spoil the starvation catastrophe propaganda if it were mentioned that this region suffers from grotesque overpopulation within an already marginal and desertifying African ecosystem. Never mind the consequential sectarian, tribal and proxy civil wars ... all of it self inflicted. 

Sadly any "help" that the West could provide would merely encourage and prolong the cultural dysfunction and most certainly not provide any long term solution - merely ever more of the same in the future.

Apologies for being realistic about this event - but it is the cold hard truth, and it might help if such articles provided context and thereby provide clarity towards a solution.