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East Africa food crisis

Twenty five years after the East Africa famine and a new food crisis is escalating in the region affecting 20 million people.

In ETHIOPIA, some 6.2 million require emergency food.

In KENYA, 3.8 million Kenyans, mostly in rural areas, face high to extreme food insecurity, up from 2.6 million in March.

In SOMALIA, half the population need help to stay alive.

In UGANDA'S Karamoja region, 1 million face food shortages.

A cocktail of factors have combined to leave many in jeopardy:

• climatic changes have led to unreliable rainy seasons
• lack of rain has brought successive years of drought
• crops have failed and livestock has perished

Please help our response via local church-based partners.

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How you can help 

Tearfund launched an appeal for East Africa in 2008 which enabled us to provide emergency and long term support to thousands.

 

Please help us to continue such work.

 

East Africa needs your prayers - use our prayer points.

Crisis coverage from 2008 

This page was last updated on 14 December 2009

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