A total of 7.7 million people in Ethiopia are estimated to be in dire need of food aid in 2017 due to a worsening drought.
Ethiopia already suffered from reduced rainfalls in 2015 and 2016 due to a weather phenomenon called El Niño, which affected around 10 million people in the region.
El Niño designates an oscillation in weather conditions occurring every several years resulting from variations in ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Ethiopia is not the only country in the region affected by oscillations in rainfall. A total of 12 to 13 million people are said to be in need of humanitarian assistance across the Horn of Africa region, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
In addition to those affected in Ethiopia, there are 2.7 million in Kenya, 2.9 million in Somalia and 1.6 million people in Uganda who will not be able to meet their nutritional needs on their own.
Source: Daily Sabah. Read full article here.
28 April, 2017
