Ethiopia: Failed Rains Leave 1.75 Million More People in Need of Food Aid

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, with Ethiopia's major October to December rains having failed, an additional 1.75 million people will require food aid up to June, bringing the number of people receiving food assistance in the Horn of Africa country to 7.25 million. Drought has devastated the economies of many pastoralist groups in East African countries this year, especially Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya, leaving 11 million people at risk of food shortages.