Six months after a historic five-season drought, massive floods have inundated vast swaths of farmland across Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, right in the middle of the harvest season.
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Six months after a historic five-season drought, massive floods have inundated vast swaths of farmland across Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, right in the middle of the harvest season.
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Nearly three million people have been affected, with more than 1.2 million forced to leave their homes. Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya are bearing the brunt of this crisis, which follows severe drought.
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Floods causing widespread damage and hunger. The situation is expected to worsen in December as more rain is forecast. Action Against Hunger is calling for increased funding to address the crisis.
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FEWS NET anticipates that about 110 million people will need food aid through early next year, with a net increase in needs in Southern Africa and the Latin America and Caribbean regions.
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Food insecurity continues due primarily to three years of drought that have eroded livelihoods and assets, four years of flooding in South Sudan and episodic or protracted conflict across the region.
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The hunger emergency in Kenya is far from over. Years of drought have given way to rain, but flash flooding has washed away livestock, and destroyed farms, bringing yet more anguish for families.
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The funds announced today will allow humanitarian agencies to sustain aid pipelines of food, water, health care, nutrition and protection services in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
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Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are trapped in a hunger emergency as the region lurches from crisis to crisis: the longest drought in recorded history has given way to rains and flooding.
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Three years of drought have left over 1.9 million children at risk of dying from severe malnutrition as vulnerable communities have lost cattle, crops, and entire livelihoods.
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The number of movements in which people fled in search of safety and shelter - sometimes more than once - was also unprecedented in 2022, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
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WFP’s underfunded refugee response in Kenya is severely stretched. Thanks to US support, we have so far avoided deep cuts; Dadaab’s residents receive about 80% percent of the usual food rations.
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In some areas in Ethiopia, northern Kenya and Somalia, the cost of water has skyrocketed by 400 per cent since January 2021, making remaining water out of reach for 22.7 million people.
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It is estimated that more than 46 million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda are in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 3 or above.
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Failed rains and lingering conflict have driven more than 110,000 Somalis across the border in the past two years into Kenyan camps already struggling to cope with drought.
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A new report from Action Against Hunger found that countries experiencing the worst hunger crises received less targeted hunger funding than countries with lower rates of food insecurity.
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With only a third of funding needs met for last year's appeal, the major countries of asylum in the region - DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda - were among UNHCR's most under-funded operations.
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The newly announced record $250 million allocation from CERF will help people in 19 countries including eight countries that are home to more than 20 million people just one step away from famine.
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The upcoming March-May 2023 rains are also forecast to be below average. Should these rains fail, and humanitarian assistance not be delivered at scale, food insecurity will continue to deteriorate.
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A new report by Christian Aid shows that floods, cyclones and drought killed and displaced millions of people across the globe in places which have done little to cause the climate crisis.
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As the region faces an unprecedented fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the number of children suffering dire drought conditions has more than doubled in five months, according to UNICEF.