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Horn of africa

Horn of Africa drought drives 20 million towards hunger

By AFP

A donor conference last week raised almost $1.4 billion for the region, which the UN says is facing its worst drought in 40 years.

  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    Donors pledge $1.39 bn for Horn of Africa humanitarian aid

    The money raised will go towards humanitarian and development projects in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, as the region experiences its 'worst drought in 40 years,' a statement by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

    108 days ago
  • FILE: A boy digging for roots amid drought. Picture: United Nations.

    UN says 20 million risk starvation as Horn of Africa drought worsens

    Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned on Tuesday.

    116 days ago
  • Gregarious locusts congregate on some ground vegetation at Larisoro village near Archers Post, on 21 January 2020. Picture: AFP

    Horn of Africa to face unprecedented threat to food security, warns UN agency

    The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN said the region had five million children under the age of five who were acutely malnourished.

    835 days ago
  • Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed (C) walks with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) shaking hands with dignitaries as an Eritrean delegation for peace talks with Ethiopia arrives at the international airport in Addis Ababa on 26 June 2018. Picture: AFP

    [ANALYSIS] Eritrea and Ethiopia have made peace. What next

    Few believed they would see an end to two decades of hostility between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

    1495 days ago
  • Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Picture: Twitter/@Dr_abiy

    Ethiopia's PM says ending war, expanding economic links with Eritrea key

    Abiy Ahmed’s remarks followed the announcement on Tuesday by his ruling coalition that Ethiopia would fully implement a peace deal signed in 2000.

    1528 days ago
  • Screengrab of the tropical cyclone that hit Somaliland.

    Tropical Cyclone Sagar kills at least 18 people

    The storm in the Horn of Africa has displaced nearly 12,000 people and destroyed dozens of homes.

    1544 days ago
  • FILE: Global development lenders have pledged over $8 billion on Monday to boost economic growth and reduce poverty in eight countries in the Horn of Africa. Picture: AFP.

    Lenders pledge $8 billion to Horn of Africa

    The funds will help support infrastructure development including regional oil and gas pipelines.

    2847 days ago
  • A Kenyan flag. Picture: AFP

    The Africa Report: 29 May

    EWN's Africa Correspondent, Jean-Jacques Cornish, reports on the day's top African news

    3363 days ago
  • Newly elected Somali president Hasan Sheikh Mahmud arrives at the Jazeera hotel in Mogadishu on September 12, 2012 in Mogadsihu. Somalia's president survived an assassination bid, just two days into his new job, when bomb blasts claimed by Islamist rebels rocked the Mogadishu hotel where he was meeting Kenya's foreign minister. Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack in which two blasts rocked the hotel where the new president was staying. Picture: AFP.

    Mammoth task ahead for new Somalia president

    Somalia’s new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has his work cut out for him.

    3621 days ago
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