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30 July 2011 - 4:43amUN agencies and humanitarian partners are rallying to provide life-saving assistance to 12.4 million people across the Horn of Africa, but needs are rising. “This will not be a short crisis,” Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Valerie Amos warned at an Emergency Ministerial Meeting held in... -
20 July 2011 - 10:49pmOn 20 July, at a press conference in Nairobi, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, declared that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somali population – 3.7 million people – are now in... -
16 July 2011 - 3:41amToday Valerie Amos, the Emergency relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, briefed United Nations Member States on the situation in the Horn of Africa. Noting that more than 10.7 million people across the region urgently need help, Valerie Amos emphasized the fact that the... -
10 July 2011 - 9:04pmWith 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,... -
30 June 2011 - 10:01pmThe situation in Somalia is now rapidly deteriorating, according to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) for Somalia Mark Bowden, who gave a press conference in New York on 29 June. Calling on the international community to take action now, HC Bowden stressed that “If we are not able to respond...
