Ethiopia raised the estimate of the number of people who will need food aid this year by half a million to 2.8 million because of drought in the Somali region, Agriculture State Minister Mitiku Kassa said today.
The government in November estimated that a bumper harvest had cut the number of Ethiopians needing emergency food aid to 2.3 million from more than 5 million. About 107,000 children may need treatment for severe malnutrition, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Ethiopia, Eugene Owusu, said at a joint briefing with Mitiku in the capital, Addis Ababa.
Failure of rains from October to December in the arid eastern Somali region and the southeast of Oromia region are “having a significant humanitarian impact,” Owusu said. Read More
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