East Africa: Act Now to Avert Impending Humanitarian Crisis and Soaring Child Deaths in the Greater Horn of Africa, Unicef Urges

United Nations Children's Fund (New York)

2 July 2008

A lethal mix of drought, expanding conflict, rising food and energy prices, disease, and high poverty is pushing children and their families in the Greater Horn of Africa to the brink of disaster. Actions and policies are needed now to avert grave human suffering.