More than 23m people across east Africa are facing severe hunger amid the worst humanitarian crisis in the region for 10 years, Oxfam said yesterday, as aid agencies struggle to raise the funds to feed them.
A prolonged drought has caused widespread crop failures, killed thousands of cattle and kept food prices high, leaving much of the population struggling to survive in the driest regions of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda.
But as needs rise, the ability of aid agencies to respond is being limited by the global economic downturn, which has led some donor governments to scale back aid, and by the higher priority other donors attach to the crises in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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