A recent report by the United
Nations International children Education Fund (UNICEF) made known that the
outlook of the drought is still a threat as more than 8 million people are in
need of emergency assistance.
NaijaAgroNet recalls that various international
institutions, UNICEF included, lend helping hands towards the revival of the
Horn of Africa, saving tens of thousands of children's live in 2011 when the
region witnesses drought and famine, the worst in decades.
According to the UNICEF report,
the outlook of the famine is threatening the tentative gains, the humanitarian
support gotten so far, as it is really worrisome.
This was revealed to NaijaAgroNet in a press statement made
available by UNICEF, despite supports received since 2011 the prospects for a
sustained recovery are increasingly precarious.
UNICEF Regional Director for
Eastern and Southern Africa, Elhadj As Sy said the child survival crisis in the
region is far from over, "Millions of children require sustained
assistance in the critical months ahead. Otherwise we can easily see a reversal
of the hard-won achievements."
Elhadj As Sy, who is also the
UNICEF Global Emergency Coordinator for Crisis in the region said the most
recent weather outlook in combination with prevailing insecurity and violence
in many areas can lead to new shocks and disruptions, "A development which
again puts the lives of hundreds of thousands of children at risk," he
said.
NaijaAgroNet further gathered that almost
one-third of Somali, about 2.51million are still in acute humanitarian crisis
with over 323, 000 acutely malnourished children.
Others include 463,000 Somali refugees in the
Dadaab camps in north eastern Kenya, 142,000 people in the Dollo Ado camps in
Ethiopia as well as 22,000 people in the Ali Addeh camp in Djibouti as well as
1.35 million Somalis displaced within their own country, totally over 8million.
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