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CERF Quarterly Update 3rd Quarter 2011

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More than 13 million people remain in urgent need of assistance in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. Since the beginning of the year, the Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) has allocated more than $128 million from the CERF in response to this catastrophe. Nearly 73 per cent of this—$93.4 million—was provided in this third quarter.

The scale and severity of the crisis in Somalia makes it by far the most serious food security emergency in the world today. A state of famine has already been declared in six areas and is at risk of spreading further. Some $53 million has been provided for the response in Somalia from the CERF, enabling UN agencies and their partners to intervene rapidly and as comprehensively as possible given the extremely challenging circumstances.

The effects of the drought and ensuing food crisis are also severely felt in Ethiopia and Kenya, where in addition to the urgent needs of their own population, both countries have received thousands of Somali refugees each day. The CERF has allocated more than $46 million to UN agencies in Ethiopia and $23 million for agencies Kenya. A further $6 million has been provided for the humanitarian response in Djibouti, where there are also urgent, time-critical needs.

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