Humanitarian agencies call for action as more than 15 million people in Somalia, south-eastern Ethiopia, and northern and eastern Kenya are facing food and water shortages.
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Humanitarian agencies call for action as more than 15 million people in Somalia, south-eastern Ethiopia, and northern and eastern Kenya are facing food and water shortages.
Nearly 25,000 people have been affected by floods and heavy winds, and some attempts to disrupt assessment teams’ work in affected areas have been reported in a context of political instability.
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Rainfall performance has been poor across much of the region for the first half of the 2014/15 agriculture season and could have an adverse impact on household food security.
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Food shortages and weak purchasing power will limit food availability and access, particularly for the urban poor and for households with ill or deceased family members, in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Maize harvests 50-75 percent below average are causing abnormally high maize prices and reduced livelihoods. Humanitarian assistance is needed immediately and through the next harvest in April.
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In Somalia, needs will be highest among IDPs and the pastoral destitute when the lean season approaches in October.
Humanitarian response programming for 1.97 million food insecure people is underway in 16 districts in southern Malawi.
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In 2012 so far, floods were the most frequent disaster occurring in Asia (44%), accounted for 54% of the death toll, 78% of people affected and 56% of all economic damages in the region.
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World's poorest children at risk from rising food prices Millions of children in the world’s poorest countries are at risk from rising global food prices which are teetering dangerously close to their highest level in history. Our new report, A High Price to Pay, released today on World Food Day,...
Maize prices rising even more than expected in southern Malawi Key Messages Limited household food access has resulted in a food insecurity Crisis (IPC Phase 3) in southern Malawi. Based on August analysis, FEWS NET estimates that 1.76 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance between...