By RFIPalled on 07-08-2019Modified on 07-08-2019 at 22:19
The European Commission has just released an additional € 50 million to deal with the drought wave in the Horn of Africa, bringing the EU's aid to more than € 360 million since 2018.
With our correspondent in Brussels , Joana Hostein
Thirteen million people need emergency food aid in the Horn of Africa, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid stresses.
Even more alarming for Christos Stylianides, who has just made several trips to the region: the 4 million children who are in a state of acute malnutrition.
This is due to repeated droughts in Somalia , Ethiopia , Uganda and Kenya . Episodes that come just a year after the end of the unprecedented drought wave of 2016 and 2017. Communities are not yet fully recovered. They are therefore more vulnerable, deplores the Commission.
The institution has therefore decided to release a new tranche of aid for the region. The Commission is funding the work of UN agencies and international NGOs in the field, such as the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Ethiopia. One of the funded programs aims to feed and vaccinate livestock to meet the needs of the population.
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