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Horn of Africa: Children Hardest Hit by Drought, Says UNICEF
25 January 2006
by IRIN
…The children were especially vulnerable to threats posed by malnutrition and disease.
"This drought ominously compounds an already dismal humanitarian situation," said Per Engebak, UNICEF regional director for eastern and southern Africa.
"Many factors have chipped away at the people's survival capacities, and this drought is further contributing to the erosion of those capacities as a growing number of people are becoming destitute," he added.
More than 56,000 children under the age of five were facing malnutrition in the Somali and Oromiya regions of southern Ethiopia, and the number was expected to rise sharply as the drought worsens.
In Kenya, between 40,000 and 60,000 children and women in the 27 affected districts are malnourished. According to UNICEF, as many as three out of 10 children in the drought-affected areas of Somalia will be malnourished.
Copyright 2006 IRIN
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http://irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=51327&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa&SelectCountry=HORN_OF_AFRICA
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Sean Kellem on 26 January 2006
Africa : Horn of Africa
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