Obama Approves Additional Aid for Horn of Africa

President Obama has approved an additional $105 million for urgent humanitarian relief efforts across the Horn of Africa, where the United Nations estimates that more than 12.4 million people are in urgent need as a result of the region's worst drought in more than 60 years.

U.S. president Barack Obama (file photo).

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