On World Food Day, 17 million people face starvation in the Horn of Africa

Source: CARE International - UK Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. In Ethiopia, at least 6.4 million people need emergency food aid. In Somalia, nearly half the population is slowly starving, and the country is facing a food crisis unseen since the famine of the early 1990s. And in Kenya, poor families are paying as much as 80 percent of their income just on food alone. A combination of drought, conflict, and rising food prices has left more than 17 million people in the Horn of Africa sliding into a full-blown humanitarian crisis – that’s the equivalent of nearly a quarter of the UK’s population facing starvation. These countries are heading into the peak hunger season when cereal prices are at their highest,... [read full story]