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UN: Famine Breaks Out as Drought Hits 10 Million in Horn of Africa

06/29/2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

“GENEVA — Famine has broken out in the Horn of Africa with some ten million people affected by a severe drought, the United Nations said Tuesday.

A UN spokeswoman said the drought in some regions was the worst in 60 years.

‘Over ten million people are affected by the drought in one way or other,’ Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told the AFP news agency.

‘We believe that the drought situation in certain regions is the worst in 60 years. In several regions, we can speak of famine,’ she added.

Byrs told reporters in Geneva that some 3.2 million people each in Kenya and Ethiopia, 2.6 million in Somalia and 117,000 in Djibouti needed aid.

Child malnutrition rates have reached emergency levels of 15 percent in some areas, she added.” Read more.

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