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16 April 2012 - 11:24amExpert forecasts warn that rainfall in the Horn of Africa throughout the March to May growing season is likely to be lower than average. The UN and humanitarian partners are now urging early action to prevent food insecurity from worsening across the region, with an emphasis on building resilience and... -
27 January 2012 - 1:44pmZara Ahmed is worried. The youngest of her seven children, 10-month-old Nayle Kelifa, has not been eating well, and has lost a lot of weight. Drought has come to Zara’s village, Fedis, and is delaying the production of corn, peanuts, cabbage and potatoes. She would buy food from the market instead,... -
30 December 2011 - 2:11pm2011 has been a deeply challenging year for millions of people around the world - and stretched the capacity of humanitarian aid organisations to the limit. An earthquake and tsunami in Japan, drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, and flooding in Central America, Pakistan and Southeast Asia,... -
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,... -
27 April 2011 - 7:56pmDrought 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...
