Aid for the food crisis in the Horn of Africa – get the data

A Somali refugee carries a bag of relief food from the World Food Programme distribution centre at the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

An estimated 12.4 million people now need humanitarian assistance in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti, according to the UN. The food security crisis in the Horn of Africa – including the officially declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia – has already been called the worst humanitarian crisis of 2011 by Antonio Guterres, head of the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, and the most severe food crisis in the world today.


But aid donors have been criticised for dragging their feet over sending aid to the affected areas and there have been calls for more funding to meet the need.
The UN says $2.5bn in aid is now needed for the humanitarian response, about $1.4bn more than has been committed so far.