After 30 years of fighting, hunger the last straw for Horn of Africa’s most vulnerable: UNHCR
Source: UN, 1 March 2023
After 30 years of fighting, hunger the last straw for Horn of Africa’s most vulnerable: UNHCR
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Survivors of decades of conflict in the Horn of Africa have told the UN how hunger and drought have finally uprooted them from their homes.
To help 3.3 million people who’ve been displaced in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, issued an urgent appeal this week for $137 million.
And although famine was narrowly prevented last year, the humanitarian outlook for 2023 is extremely uncertain, as the agency’s Olga Sarrado tells UN News’s Daniel Johnson.
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