People across the region are now unable to produce or purchase enough food and water to survive; twenty million across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are facing acute food insecurity, and 213,000 are now at catastrophic levels of hunger. Just over a decade since famine killed more than a quarter of a million people in Somalia, a new famine declaration is imminent. Multiple, interlocking humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa and across the region foreshadow large-scale, entirely preventable starvation.
NRC's drought response in the Horn of Africa fits within the scope of our humanitarian response for people affected by displacement and contributes to a wider humanitarian effort to support affected communities through the immediate consequences of overlapping crises and to bolster their opportunities for recovery on the other side.
