Aid workers on frontline of drought in East Africa respond to FCDO funding announcement
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in the UK has today announced £36 million in UK humanitarian funding to help people in Ukraine, East Africa and Syria. Countries in East Africa
Horn of Africa Pledging Conference: “Disappointing results with a devastating impact on women and girls.”
In response to the funds pledged at the High-Level Horn of Africa event in New York on Wednesday, Tinebeb Berhane, Country Director at ActionAid Ethiopia, said:
Climate crisis fuels drought and severe hunger across East Africa
The climate crisis is fuelling one of the worst droughts on record across the Horn of Africa, with up to 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing severe hunger. Find out more about the
East Africa Food Crisis: “Now the world is ending”
Severe drought, chronic water shortages and now rising food and energy prices due to the war on Ukraine, are pushing families to the brink of survival.
Famine announcement will be too little too late as mothers bury their children in East Africa
Responding to U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths’ warning that famine is “at the door” in parts of Somalia, Taiwo Ajose, Interim Country Director for ActionAid in Somaliland, says:
Pakistan floods - tens of millions affected in the blink of an eye
Floods in Pakistan continue to devastate communities, with over 30 million people affected, including almost 1000 dead.
New research: Local food and fuel prices more than triple in some of the world’s most at risk communities
The cost of food, fuel and fertiliser in some of the world’s poorest communities is soaring, with families spending double, triple and in some cases nearly four times what they were paying before
Humanitarian charity helps communities prepare for the worst as storm Freddy heads for Mozambique.
Humanitarian organisation ActionAid is concerned about the intensity of tropical cyclone Freddy and the crippling impact on vulnerable communities in Madagascar, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.