Hunger Crisis Hits Horn of Africa

Publisher:
http://www.youtube.com/user/standardgroupkenya
Publication Date:
17 July 2011
Tags:
East Africa, Aid and Assistance

A hunger crisis is putting millions of children at risk in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia as the drought situation begins taking its toll. The United Nations children's fund, UNICEF, has called for an immediate expansion of assistance across the horn of Africa to address the dire needs of more than two million children, 500,000 of whom face imminent risk of dying. Prime Minister Raila Odinga says aid should be distributed across the Somali border to control the high numbers of refugees crossing into Kenya due to hunger.

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