WORLD_ HUNGERS_ Hunger in the Horn of Africa

Hunger in the Horn of Africa

Aug 4th 2011, 17:48 by The Economist online


NEVER again, said the world after the horror Ethiopia's famine in 1984. And for years famine seemed to have departed Africa. But after the worst drought in 60 years, it has returned. Northern Kenya, south-eastern Ethiopia, southern Somalia and Djibouti have been worst hit. The UN estimates that more than 12m people in the Horn of Africa need urgent help; tens of thousands have already died and hundreds of thousands more risk starvation. Livestock have been annihilated. Hundreds of thousands of people are streaming into refugee camps in search of help. Malnutrition rates in some areas are five times more severe than the threshold aid agencies use to define a crisis. Many children are already dying of starvation.

KENYA, DADAAB: Abdifatah Hassan, who is 11 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition, lies on a cot at a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in the biggest refugee camp in the world in Dadaab. (AFP Photo/Roberto Schmidt)

SOMALIA, MOGADISHU: A severely malnourished child lies down after being admitted to Banadir Hospital in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu. (AFP PHOTO/ Mustafa ABDI)



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(to be continued...)





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