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Top 30 Donors to the Horn of Africa Food Crisis

$1.1 billion dollars has been committee so far for the Horn of Africa food crisis, but there is still a gap of $1 billion to fulfill basic humanitarian needs caused by the worst drought in 60 years.   A list of the top donors to the food crisis in the Horn of Africa.

Famine in Somalia. How is the World Responding?

We are now one week into the first famine in the world since 1984.  About 11 million people are at risk in the Horn of Africa and the UN expects that this number will grow during the month of August, with famine conditions spreading beyond southern Somalia to elsewhere in the region.

Somalia Famine Relief Seriously Under-Funded

The worst drought in 60 years is causing the first famine in over 20 years in East Africa.  That, in turn is causing a massive population flow. Families are scrambling to leave famine stricken areas, and are arriving in over-crowded refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia.

Famine in Somalia

The United Nations is set to declare that there is a famine ongoing in southern Somalia.