With the Horn of Africa once again in the grip of a severe drought, ERC Valerie Amos travelled to Ethiopia’s drought-affected Somali region, where pastoralist communities have not seen rain for some 18 months.
“I have just come back from the Somali Region, where I met the regional president, and visited an...
Drought induced by the La Niña phenomenon in the Horn of Africa has left more than 2 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in the southern and southeastern lowlands of Ethiopia. According to a special report from the Ethiopia Humanitarian Country Team (EHCT), emergency conditions are likely to...