BY ESAT NEWS Ethiopia is not among four countries that are recipients of the United States $639 million in additional humanitarian assistance to the millions of people affected by food insecurity and violence. The USAID said in a statement that the money will go to four countries: South Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen.
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MSF sees tenfold increase in children with malnutrition in Ethiopia’s Doolo zone, highest ever seen BY MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES An acute humanitarian emergency is unfolding in Doolo zone, in Ethiopia’s Somali region, as malnutrition reaches alarming levels, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), whose teams are working in Doolo zone, the worst affected area. “The numbers […]
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Drought has forced 7.8 million people across the whole of Ethiopia to rely on emergency food handouts to stay alive. BY AFP The Somali people of Ethiopia’s southeast have a name for the drought that has killed livestock, dried up wells and forced hundreds of thousands into camps: sima, which means “equalised”. It’s an appropriate […]
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Save the Children warned drought in Ethiopia could risk developing into a catastrophe BY ESAT NEWS The United Nations warns that deficiency disease looms in drought affected communities as food pipeline is breaking. About eight million people currently receiving food assistance face malnutrition as Ethiopia runs out of emergency food aid from July 2017, according […]
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By Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Historic droughts in East and Southern Africa have caused food prices to skyrocket to record levels, doubling the price of staple cereals in some areas. The areas of greatest food insecurity, however, are those affected by conflict.
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