Update

I HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES

• Bay, Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia were this week reclassified from “Famine/Humanitarian Catastrophe” to “Humanitarian Emergency”. Humanitarian needs however still persist, with 250,000 out of a previous 750,000 Somalis still at risk of starvation.
• Heavy rains and insecurity continue to impede humanitarian access to both drought- and conflict-affected people in north-eastern Kenya, Dollo Ado in Ethiopia and Juba in Somalia.
• Approximately 10,000 out of an estimated 27,000 refugees living in Ifo 2 East Camp in Kenya have been displaced by floods following heavy rains during the past month. • WHO has confirmed cases of Acute Watery Diarrhoea/cholera in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, in Burhakaba, Mogadishu and Qhansadheere in Somalia and Obok region in Djibouti. • A batch of Unimix, a cereal blend donated to drought-affected children across the country, was found to be contaminated with aflatoxin.