Reports

Yet again, millions of Kenyans are staring hunger in the face as a result of a severe drought and increasing fuel and food prices. Fatuma Ahmed, a 39 year old mother of seven from Wajir district in…

Government response needed, humanitarian action insufficient to deal with the “world’s worst food security crisis” in East Africa NAIROBI, KENYA — As a severe food crisis sweeps across the Greater Horn of Africa, an estimated 10 million…

As the drought worsens in Northern Kenya, its effects become more pronounced on women and girls. Water scarcity compromises hygiene especially for girls and women as the little water available is prioritised for drinking and cooking. Women…

Canada’s leading relief agencies raise the alarm that millions face starvation as drought ravages East African nations Ottawa, ON (July 6, 2011) – Canadian aid agencies, under the banner of the HUMANITARIAN COALITION, are urging Canadians, the…

KENYA, SOMALIA. Following a virtually inexistent rainy season, the dry season which has barely started will be an extremely critical period for rural populations whose livelihoods depend primarily on livestock. In North Kenya and southern…

1.0 Summary of food security conditions 1.1 Overall situation and food security prognosis The 2011 long rains have ended in all the drought-affected pastoral, southeastern and Coastal marginal agricultural areas, culminating in the second or third successive poor…

ActionAid has launched a £1.5 million appeal to urgently step up its work in drought-affected East Africa. The severe drought across Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda and Djibouti has left an estimated 10m people on the brink of…

With more than ten million people in the Horn of Africa facing severe drought, the British Red Cross has launched the East Africa Food Crisis Appeal. Very poor rainfall in the Horn of Africa (including Somalia, Kenya,…

Kenya is experiencing a prolonged drought. Lack of rain earlier in the year has caused crops to fail. The humanitarian consequences of the prolonged drought being experienced in most arid and semiarid areas have increased since…

Adan Kabelo, the head of Oxfam GB’s work in Somalia, writes from Lower Juba in southern Somalia, where a devastating drought and ongoing conflict has left people facing starvation: On the edge of Dobley town, there are…