Drought, combined with soaring food and fuel prices, is causing a severe humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa region, according to the top United Nations relief official.
"Large areas of the Horn of Africa, including parts of Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Uganda and Kenya, are now in or rapidly sliding towards a humanitarian emergency and we believe there are something like 14 million people now in urgent need of food aid and other humanitarian assistance in the coming months," Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes told reporters in New York today.
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