East Africa countries are facing severe drought -drought, the United Nations calls for strengthening international assistance

Xinhua News Agency, Nairobi, June 17th: East Africa countries are facing severe drought drought and the United Nations calls for strengthening international assistance

Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhu Shaobin

A number of United Nations agencies recently issued a statement saying that East Africa, especially the African corners, is suffering from severe droughts, and a large number of people in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are facing serious uncertainty of food supply. Relevant agencies have called for rapid expansion of international rescue.

The UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office stated on the 13th that about 18.4 million people in the three African countries, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, are currently facing severe uncertainty of food supply, including more than 7.1 million children with serious acute malnutrition. Essence

Laenia Dagash, deputy director of the East and Southern African regions of the United Nations Foundation, recently said that Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia have a large number of serious acute malnutrition children in urgent need for treatment. Dagash said that the number of children who died of severe acute malnutrition and related complications in local medical institutions this year in the areas where Africa died in the most seriously affected areas of Africa. In addition, from February to May this year, the number of families that cannot obtain cleaning and safe water use are also increasing.

The Kenyan government recently stated that the country's population facing hunger due to drought has climbed from 3.5 million in May to 4.1 million. An article published by the World Grain Program April said that Ethiopia has apologized for a large number of agricultural works due to severe drought, and more than 1 million livestock dies. At the same time, it is estimated that 7.2 million people are facing hunger threats in the southern and southeast regions of the country.

The World Grain Program, the United Nations Children's Foundation and the International Immigration Organization and its partners have recently launched a project in Somalia to assist in solving the country's urgent demand for a large number of people from drought. A joint statement issued by these institutions said that Somalia is on the verge of famine and now needs to take common action to avoid humanitarian disasters.

Humanitarian rescue organizations, including the United Nations agencies, issued a joint statement at the end of May to call for the rapid expansion of humanitarian rescue operations to solve the problem of serious shortage of corner rescue funds in Africa.

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