Save the Children: Hunger Levels Soar in Horn of Africa as Region Faces Driest Summer in Over 35 Years
October 14, 2019
October 14, 2019
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, Oct. 14 -- Save the Children issued the following news release:
Save the Children warned of a major emergency in the Horn of Africa, as nearly 13 million people face critical levels of hunger following a succession of failed rains. Half of the affected people, an estimated 6.5 million, are children. The region is now experiencing the lowest cumulative rainfall totals since 1981/1.
Despite efforts by aid agencies and the governments of Ethiopia, S . . .
Save the Children warned of a major emergency in the Horn of Africa, as nearly 13 million people face critical levels of hunger following a succession of failed rains. Half of the affected people, an estimated 6.5 million, are children. The region is now experiencing the lowest cumulative rainfall totals since 1981/1.
Despite efforts by aid agencies and the governments of Ethiopia, S . . .