Latest famine in Somalia and the Horn of Africa news and updates
News and updates from Africa Renewal and United Nations agencies on the developing crisis in the Horn of Africa, where more than 13 million people are in desperate need.
Ethiopia opens new camp for Somali refugees
Hundreds of Somali refugees in southern Ethiopia's Dollo Ado region have been relocated from an overcrowded transit centre to a new camp, Bur Amino. The camp was opened on Wednesday and became the fifth one in the Dollo Ado region. The first group of some 400 refugees has been moved by bus from the transit centre to Bur Amino, 26 kilometres away. On arrival, the visibly relieved refugees underwent health and nutrition screening before being shown to their tents and given hot meals....
Yemen returnee numbers soar
Continuing unrest and xenophobia in Yemen have prompted an upsurge in the number of migrants and refugees returning to Somalia, with up to 6,000 reported to have travelled back across the Red Sea since the beginning of October...
New challenges in Somalia, relief efforts under pressure in Kenya and Ethiopia
UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahe?i?: “We are concerned about Al Shabaab's announcement yesterday, permanently revoking work permissions to a number of UN organizations including UNHCR in parts of Somalia under their control...”
Dadaab: Walking the fine line between helping refugees and risking lives
Ibrahim held up an X-ray of his broken thigh bone, taken when he first arrived in the Dadaab refugee complex of north-eastern Kenya. Five months later, he still cannot walk. "I fell off a car when I was heading to Kenya from the Bay region [in southern Somalia]," the 31-year-old explained, sitting at the entrance of his white tent in the red earth...
Poor weather, conflict exacerbate dire situation for Somali civilians
Continuing conflict and bad weather in Somalia are further aggravating the dire humanitarian situation in Somalia. UNHCR staff in the south-western border town of Dobley say fewer refugees are crossing into Kenya. Rains which have made roads impassable and fear of being caught up in conflict are being cited as the main reasons...
UNHCR concerned about new restrictions on humanitarian work in Somalia
The UN refugee agency expressed concern on Tuesday at the decision earlier this week by Somalia’s Al Shabaab militia to revoke permission for UNHCR and other UN aid organizations to work in areas controlled by the group...
Life-saving work continues in Kenya’s Dadaab camps
In the Dadaab refugee complex in eastern Kenya, UNHCR is reporting a sharp drop in the number of new arrivals from Somalia. This could be due to the border military operations or the onset of heavy rains in the area. No newly-arriving refugees have approached the registration centre in the last week...
Almost 320,000 civilians flee Somalia this year, including 20,000 to Yemen
The deteriorating humanitarian situation in Somalia has forced almost 320,000 Somalis to flee their country so far this year. "While the majority are seeking safety and aid in neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia, many Somalis continue to head northwards to embark on the risky sea journey across the Gulf of Aden," UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic told journalists in Geneva on Friday...
Horn of Africa: More resources needed to maintain relief effort — UN
The massive humanitarian response to the food crisis in the Horn of Africa has eased the suffering of thousands of people, but more resources are needed to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children in famine-hit areas of Somalia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today in a progress report on the crisis...
UN and partners scale up malaria response for two million Somalis at risk
The United Nations and its partners are escalating their response measures to prevent a malaria outbreak in Somalia, where two million people already suffering from drought, famine and conflict are at higher risk of contracting the disease during the current rainy season...
Somalia has best chance for peace in years, says UN envoy
Somalis currently have a rare opportunity to advance peace in their country and establish a fully functioning government, says the United Nations envoy to the Horn of Africa nation...
Kenyan farmers receive UN help to withstand drought, prevent food crisis
An increase in food prices, political uncertainty and fuel shortages are severely straining Yemenis' ability to feed their families, the United Nations Food Programme (WFP) warned today, adding that the country is now facing a serious humanitarian situation...
UN food agency warns of serious humanitarian situation in Yemen
An increase in food prices, political uncertainty and fuel shortages are severely straining Yemenis' ability to feed their families, the United Nations Food Programme (WFP) warned today, adding that the country is now facing a serious humanitarian situation...
UNICEF warns of lack of nutrition supplies to meet unprecedented global demand
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged the international community to scale up its efforts to deal with the crisis in the Horn of Africa, saying the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees depended on it...
Angelina Jolie appeals to governments to step up life-saving efforts in the Horn of Africa
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged the international community to scale up its efforts to deal with the crisis in the Horn of Africa, saying the lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees depended on it...
UNHCR concerned about fresh violence in Somalia
The UN refugee agency said on Tuesday it is "very concerned" by the latest escalation of violence in southern Somalia. The renewed clashes between opposing armed groups are further exacerbating the already severe humanitarian situation...
UNICEF sends in health experts to prevent cholera epidemic in Somalia
Conflict and famine in Somalia have forced hundreds of thousands of Somalis to come to Mogadishu seeking food and safety, often arriving in a state of extreme malnutrition. The influx of such high numbers into congested urban areas and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps, in an endemic cholera area can have potentially devastating consequences...
UN releases drugs to help battle dengue fever outbreak in Kenya
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has provided essential drugs to help treat an outbreak of dengue fever that has affected an estimated 1,000 people in the north-eastern Kenyan district of Mandera, which borders Ethiopia and Somalia...
Horn of Africa mini-summit ends with more than $200 million of new aid pledges
At least $218 million in new aid for the Horn of Africa was pledged today at a United Nations mini-summit held to raise awareness about the region's humanitarian crisis and tackle the root causes of its recurring drought-related food shortages...
Somali leader warns UN that militants are looking to export their violence
Islamist militants that have wreaked havoc in southern Somalia are now looking to strike outside the country and concerted international action is needed to prevent them from exporting their violence, Somalia's Prime Minister told the United Nations today...
Africa the focus as UN chief holds talks with Tanzanian and Eritrean leaders
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with the leaders of Eritrea and Tanzania today to discuss some of the many political and humanitarian challenges confronting Africa. In a tête-à-tête with Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki, held on the sidelines of the General Assembly’s annual general debate, Mr. Ban discussed peace and security issues in the Horn of Africa, particularly Somalia...
Somali refugees learn to live together in new tented town rising in Kenya
In a windy desert camp, two women vigorously insult each other over who will be the first to fill their plastic can with water. Either side of a standpipe, they hurl epithets. For much of their lives, the women have been accustomed to travelling several kilometres for the precious substance and it is a resource worth battling over. Arguments such as this can quickly evolve into blood feuds involving entire families...
Conditions worsen for famine-wracked Somalis in Mogadishu, but improve in Ethiopia
Health and nutrition rates have deteriorated for famine-wracked Somalis displaced within their own country but improved for those who have fled to Ethiopia, the United Nations refugee agency reported today...
World Bank grants US$30 million to help refugees
The World Bank announced in Washington, DC, on Thursday that it was donating US$30 million to UNHCR to help the more than half-a-million refugees — mostly women and children — in targeted camps in Ethiopia and Kenya get access to nutrition, health and sanitation services...
For Somali refugee children in Kenya, the new school year offers a fresh start
For children around the world, the end of the school holidays usually comes with mixed feelings. That was surely the case as schools re-opened their doors this week in the Dadaab refugee camps in north-eastern Kenya...
UNHCR scaling up operations inside Somalia
Amid assessments of a somewhat improved security situation in some parts of Somalia, UNHCR is scaling up its presence in Somalia's border regions and in Mogadishu. Yesterday, a UNHCR team undertook a mission to Liboi (Kenya) and Dobley (Lower Juba), which is the main transit point on the route to Dadaab refugee camps, in order to finalize arrangements for office and accommodation premises in Dobley...
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Youssou N’Dour meets Somali refugee children in Dadaab, Kenya
Goodwill Ambassador Youssou N’Dour met children in the Dadaab refugee camps in north-eastern Kenya earlier this week, hearing for himself some of the many stories of suffering amongst the more than 435,000 people who have fled to the camps to escape famine, drought and insecurity in Somalia...
Welcoming new Somali Roadmap to peace, Ban calls on world to provide more aid
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to provide additional resources to Somalia’s transitional leaders following their adoption of a plan to bring unity, peace and stability to a country that has been torn by factional strife for the past 20 years...
Djibouti: UNICEF launches scheme to provide safe drinking water
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has begun a 75-day operation to provide thousands of Djiboutians with safe drinking water as the country continues to suffer from the drought gripping much of the Horn of Africa...
Somalia may have normal rains in coming months, but drought may persist
Normal to above-normal rainfall could return to famine-ravaged southern Somalia over the next three months but there may not yet be much easing of the drought there since the September-to-December rains are a relatively small part of the annual total, the United Nations reported today...
Statement: Secretary-General urges implementation of Somali roadmap for unity, peace and stability
The Secretary-General strongly welcomes the outcome of the consultative meeting held in Mogadishu from 4 to 6 September, at which key Somali leaders agreed on a detailed Roadmap for completing the current transitional period. He is encouraged that such an important political meeting was held inside Somalia. This marks another step forward in the implementation of the Djibouti Peace Process...
UN agencies dispatching aid as more Sudanese refugees flee to Ethiopia
United Nations agencies are mobilizing to assist at some 20,000 people who have fled the fighting in Sudan’s Blue Nile state and arrived in neighbouring Ethiopia. An assessment team from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) found that the refugees arriving in the Assosa region of western Ethiopia appear in good physical condition but need food, water and shelter...
More than 80 per cent of Somali refugees in Ethiopia are children
Children are bearing the brunt of the Horn of Africa crisis and constitute the majority of all Somali refugees in neighbouring Ethiopia, the United Nations reported today...
Back to school in the world’s largest refugee camp
The new academic year got under way on Monday in the world's largest refugee camp complex, with some 43,000 Somali children turning up for classes at Dadaab in north-east Kenya. But enrolment rates among the estimated 156,000 children of school age are relatively low in Dadaab's camps, which have 19 primary schools and six secondary schools...
FAO calls for stepped up response
FAO today called for increased efforts to stem the food crisis in the Horn of Africa as famine spread to a sixth area of Somalia, threatening 750 000 people with starving to death in the next four months. Together with ongoing crises in the rest of the country, the number of Somalis in need of humanitarian assistance has increased from 2.4 million to 4 million in the last eight months, with 3 million of them in the country's south...
Horn of Africa food crisis remains dire as famine spreads in Somalia
The United Nations agricultural agency today called for greater efforts bring the food crisis in the Horn of Africa under control, saying that famine conditions had spread to a sixth area in Somalia, putting an estimated 750,000 people in the country at risk of starvation over the next four months...
UN and partners boost food aid to Somali refugees amid alarming malnutrition
United Nations agencies and their partners are stepping up food distribution in refugee camps in Ethiopia that house people who have fled famine in neighbouring Somalia amid alarming malnutrition rates among children, the UN refugee agency reported today...
UNICEF combats measles in overcrowded displacement camps in Somalia
In the capital, Mogadishu, tens of thousands of families displaced by drought and conflict are living in camps around the city. Quarters are tight, making the conditions ripe for an infectious disease like measles...
UN refugee agency to airlift aid into Somalia for Eid al-Fitr holiday
The United Nations refugee agency today said it will airlift 240 tons of aid from Saudi Arabia to Somalia during the Eid al-Fitr holiday to ensure that those facing the severe food crisis in the Horn of Africa country have enough to eat during the special occasion, which marks the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan...
IKEA Foundation gives UNHCR US$62 million for Somali refugees in Kenya
The IKEA Foundation has donated US$62 million to UNHCR for the agency's expanding operation to help tens of thousands of Somali civilians at the huge Dadaab refugee complex in north-east Kenya...
Kenya-Somalia: Border town feels the refugee pressure
As Somali refugees continue to pour into Kenya, pressure is mounting on the government to quickly re-open a transit centre to not only ease their hardship but to take pressure off residents of Liboi, a border town closest to Dadaab, the world's largest refugee complex...
Somalia: Locals join IDP camps in search of food
More and more poor residents of Mogadishu are moving into camps set up there to house more than 100,000 displaced from other parts of the country by intensifying drought and the subsequent lack of food and other basic services, say aid workers and civil society representatives...
Somali chief's visit to Puntland region opens way for national reconciliation – UN
Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed recent visit to the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland is a step forward on the path to national reconciliation in the faction-wracked country, a senior United Nations official said today...
Somali exodus slows in Horn of Africa but grows in Yemen
With the crisis in the Horn of Africa continuing, UNCHR has noted an evolving displacement pattern during August with fewer Somalis displaced within Somalia or into Kenya or Ethiopia, but rising arrivals in Yemen...
Flow of Somalis fleeing famine starts to ebb – UN
Fewer people have been fleeing their homes in famine-wracked Somalia this month, with insecurity, restrictions by Al-Shabaab Islamic militants and delivery of on-site aid all apparently playing a role in the decrease, the United Nations reported today...
Saving Somali children: Striving to stave off a health crisis in Ethiopian camp
The graves at Kobe refugee camp are scattered here and there and their existence screams of an urgent condition. Between June 24, when the facility opened in eastern Ethiopia, and August 12, investigators found 16 grave sites containing 562 bodies. Of those, 476 were considered to be children under five years of age...
World must fund famine-wracked Somalia to prevent generation dying, UN warns
African leaders convened a fund-raising conference today for famine-wracked Somalia, where tens of thousands of people have already died and 3.2 million are on the brink of starvation, with a top United Nations official warning that the crisis stretches far beyond hunger to issues of health, protection and livelihood...
Drought in Kenya: Current Crisis Calls for Long-term Solutions
Only minutes after our take-off from Nairobi's Wilson Airport, the landscape below us starts changing from lush green to arid brown and yellow, seemingly devoid of life. We are heading to the dry rural regions of Wajir and Turkana in northern Kenya...
Horn of Africa: Funding for agricultural recovery lagging, FAO warns
As world governments met today in Ethiopia for an international pledging conference aimed at winning more aid for the Horn of Africa, FAO has warned that efforts to keep farmers and pastoralists on their feet, prevent the crisis from worsening and speed progress toward recovery are not being adequately funded...
On eve of Horn of Africa pledging conference, UN calls for generous donations
The vast number of people fleeing famine and drought in Somalia for neighbouring Kenya overshadows the fact that each journey begins with a tough decision to leave that is prompted by specific events and is followed by a series of more mundane choices, such as what to pack...
KENYA-SOMALIA: The nitty-gritty of flight
The vast number of people fleeing famine and drought in Somalia for neighbouring Kenya overshadows the fact that each journey begins with a tough decision to leave that is prompted by specific events and is followed by a series of more mundane choices, such as what to pack...
As starving Somalis flood into Ethiopia, UN sends in emergency aid team
The United Nations has deployed an emergency team to south-eastern Ethiopia where 18,000 new refugees fleeing drought, famine and conflict in Somalia have recently poured in, compounding a situation already fraught with high mortality from malnutrition and measles...
Life-saving aid effort continues across Horn of Africa
In Kenya, UNHCR continues to relocate refugees from the outskirts of the three camps that make the Dadaab refugee complex (Ifo, Dagahaley and Hagadera). Refugees are being transported by bus to the new sites. As of Monday 22 August, more than 18,000 refugees had been moved to the Ifo 3 part of the Ifo extension...
In Kenya, families struggle to cope with loss amidst drought
Inside the camp settlements that have mushroomed around towns like Wajir, men are conspicuously missing. As drought ravages the vast and barren expanse of northern Kenya, rather than stay in the settlements, the men have opted to salvage whatever little livestock is left by scouring the arid ranges of northern Kenya and sometimes southern Somalia in search of water and pasture...
UN Somalia: ‘Disaster fatigue’ must not dull compassion for starving children – UN official
The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today made an impassioned appeal to the world to save an estimated 390,000 starving children in famine-ravaged regions of Somalia, saying the international community must not let the so-called “disaster fatigue” numb compassion and generosity...
UN boosts children nutrition to prevent stunted growth in drought-hit Horn of Africa
In an effort to tackle high levels of malnutrition among children in areas of the Horn of African affected by the severe food crisis, the United Nations reported today it had launched programmes to boost nutrition by providing special products to prevent damage to children’s physical and mental development...
Kenya-Somalia: a refugee’s story
Having lived in a refugee camp in northeastern Kenya since he was 10 years old, Moulid Iftin Hujale, now 24, has struggled with his identity for most of his life. Hujale, a freelance writer for IRIN, wrote this article, based on his life, to illustrate the challenges of growing up as a refugee...
UNHCR distributes aid to 30,000 displaced Somalis in past week
The UN refugee agency said Friday it is continuing to distribute emergency aid to displaced people in southern and central Somalia, reaching some 30,000 of them this week alone...
UNHCR launches shared web portal for Horn of Africa emergency
UNHCR today launched a new website providing detailed and regularly updated information from the agency and its operational partners on the refugee and displacement emergency in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa...
UN gathering stresses relief and investment to tackle hunger in Horn of Africa
A United Nations-convened meeting to discuss ways to boost food security in the drought-prone Horn of Africa got under way in Rome today, as humanitarian agencies step up their response to cholera and diarrhoea in Somalia, where famine and water shortages have made people vulnerable to infectious diseases...
Funding overview for the Somalia displacement crisis, as of 18 August 2011
Funding overview for the Somalia displacement crisis, prepared by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. As of 18 August 2011, only 68,9% of the emergency appeal has been funded...
Feeding centres aim to alleviate chronic malnutrition in drought-affected Djibouti
More than two million children in the Horn of Africa are acutely malnourished. In Djibouti, a country of less than 865,000 people, malnutrition is chronic, but has reached particularly high levels this year. In the poorer neighbourhoods of the main urban areas, rates of moderate malnutrition tripled from May 2010 and May 2011...
Horn of Africa: tackling the evils of famine
Images of starving Somalis have shaken the conscience of the world: stomachs flattened by hunger, sagging flesh and noses dripping in mucus, fed on by opportunistic toilet flies. And death is lurking. This is the picture of many of the living in Somalia, who look to humanity for help...
Aid efforts in the Horn of Africa need to be scaled up further, says UN relief chief
The United Nations humanitarian chief today stressed the need to further scale up efforts to assist the millions of people suffering in Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa, warning that more lives will be lost to famine and disease without urgent action...
Somali Displacement Crisis at a glance
Nearly half of Somalia’s 7.5 million people have been affected by drought, and a quarter of the population has been prooted since the beginning of the year. Some 1.5 million more Somalis are internally displaced, mostly in the south-central region of the country...
Sharp rise in mortality seen at refugee camp in southeast Ethiopia
An assessment of mortality in one of four refugee camps at the Dollo Ado complex in Ethiopia has found that death rates have reached alarming levels among new arrivals. Since the Kobe refugee camp opened in June, an average of 10 children under the age of five have died every day...
Video: Security Council President on the situation in Somalia
The United Nations Security Council welcomes the mobilisation of the international community so far; urges member states to contribute to the United Nations consolidated appeal for Somalia, and expresses serious concern that the appeal is not being fully funded...
At world’s biggest refugee camp, UN relief chief calls for more aid for Somalis
The United Nations humanitarian chief today toured the world's largest refugee camp, telling residents of Dadaab in north-eastern Kenya that the international community must do more to help the large number of famine-stricken Somalis who continue to cross the nearby border to seek aid...
On ‘heartbreaking’ visit to Somalia, UN relief chief urges safe passage for aid workers
On a one-day visit to Mogadishu, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos toured Banadir Hospital — one of just four locations in the war-wracked city where children suffering from acute malnutrition are being treated. Ms. Amos described the scenes she witnessed in the hospital as heartbreaking...
UN Women: Confluence of famine and conflict devastating for women and children in Somalia
A statement by Executive Director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet outlines the double tradegy of famine in the Horn of Africa for Somali women: “While attempting to save their children from starvation, malnutrition and disease, women in Somalia are subject to conflict-related security threats including sexual violence...”
Horn of Africa crisis - humanitarian update
Amid continuing high numbers of arrivals of people fleeing drought, famine and conflict in Somalia, the UN refugee agency will this weekend start to move Somali refugee families into a new area of the Dadaab refugee complex. The new site, known as Kambioos, is situated close to the Hagadera camp and has a planned capacity of 90,000 people...
Shelter needs grow as more Somali refugees stream into Kenya, says UN agency
The United Nations refugee agency said today it urgently needs 45,000 more tents as more Somalis continue to arrive in Kenya after fleeing drought, famine and conflict in their homeland. More than 70,000 Somali refugees have arrived at the three camps that make up Kenya's Dadaab refugee complex during June and July...
Ban talks with rock star Bono on mobilizing aid for famine-wracked Horn of Africa
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today discussed the need to mobilize international resources to counter famine in the Horn of Africa with Irish rock star Bono, a leader of the multi-partner Campaign ONE, which fights extreme poverty and preventable diseases in the world's poorest places...
UN official voices concern over reports of rape of Somali women fleeing famine
The United Nations official leading the fight against sexual violence in times of conflict today voiced concern over reports that women and girls fleeing famine in Somalia were being raped or abducted and forced into marriage by bandits and other armed groups as they tried to reach refugee camps in Kenya...
World must aid Somalia at historic juncture on its road to stability – UN envoy
Recent political and military improvements in war-torn Somalia offer an "extraordinary moment" of opportunity for progress and great challenges, including from warlords and terrorists, the top United Nations envoy in the country said today, urging the world community to provide more financial and logistical support...
High food prices exacerbate crisis in drought-affected Horn of Africa – UN
The prices of grain and milk in the drought-hit Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia have risen to record highs, exacerbating hardship for the estimated 12.4 million people in the region who are facing severe food shortages and famine in some parts of Somalia, the United Nations reported today...
Somalia’s education sector further threatened by famine exodus, UN warns
Immediate action and funding are urgently needed to prevent a dramatic worsening of the educational situation in war- and drought-wracked Somalia, where some 1.8 million children are already out of school, with a knock-on effect on access to health care, the United Nations warnedtoday...
Helping the most vulnerable in Dadaab
As famine and conflict drive tens of thousands of Somalis across borders in search of asylum and assistance, UNHCR is paying particular attention to the needs of people with specific needs. The agency tries to ensure that those who require medical assistance or who live with disabilities receive help in the fastest possible way...
UN moves on two fronts to combat life-threatening famine in Horn of Africa
The United Nations is moving on two fronts to counter the worsening food crisis in the Horn of Africa, with an immediate infusion of food in an area where 640,000 children alone are threatened with acute malnutrition, and longer-term steps to spark an agricultural recovery...
Somalia: UN agency airlifts emergency aid for famine-hit people in Mogadishu
The United Nations refugee agency today airlifted the first of three consignments of emergency relief supplies for famine-stricken people in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, the first time the agency has delivered aid to the city by air in five years...
UN urges rapid response to measles outbreak in Somali refugee camps in Ethiopia
The United Nations on Saturday voiced alarm at the plight of Somali refugees in the Dollo Ado camps in south-eastern Ethiopia following an outbreak of suspected measles, and called for urgent action to assist an already vulnerable population...
Horn of Africa: UNICEF urges airlines to cut costs of delivering aid
As aid agencies continue to scale up their response to the dire humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is appealing to the air transport sector to provide free and discounted cargo space to bring emergency food supplies into the region...
Somalia: UN official warns famine could spread without adequate relief funding
The United Nations humanitarian chief warned today that the famine in Somalia could spread if the international community does not provide the funds required to respond to the hunger crisis, which, she said, had claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people...
UN calls for more funds to save lives across Horn of Africa
The United Nations today appealed for a further $1.4 billion to save the lives of some 12 million people across the Horn of Africa stricken by a worsening drought, and to stop the crisis from becoming an “even bigger catastrophe.”...
Ban stresses urgency of funding Horn of Africa relief efforts
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed the need for urgent funding to carry out critical humanitarian efforts in the Horn of Africa and assist the millions suffering from famine and drought in the region. In phone calls yesterday with top officials from Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Mr. Ban discussed the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Horn of Africa, where an estimated 11.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance...
Number of famine-displaced Somalis seeking aid in Mogadishu swells to 100,000 – UN
Up to 100,000 internally displaced people have arrived in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, over the last two months in search of food, water, shelter and other vital humanitarian assistance after fleeing famine-hit areas, the United Nations refugee agency reported today...
UN humanitarian fund gives millions for food aid across Horn of Africa
The United Nations-managed humanitarian fund has allocated more than $51 million to deliver food aid to thousands of needy people across the Horn of Africa, which has been ravaged by a drought so severe that parts of southern Somalia are now experiencing famine...