(Sky News) Appeal As Food Crisis Worsens In East Africa

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The crisis is deepening for some of the 13m East Africans worst-hit by one of the most devastating droughts in 60 years, aid agencies have warned.

World Food Day is being marked nearly three months since the UN declared a famine in parts of the Horn of Africa.

But people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and the newly-formed Republic of South Sudan remain in desperate need of food, water and emergency healthcare.

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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Dieting/Food/Nutrition • Poverty • * General Interest • Natural Disasters: Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, etc. • Weather • * International News & Commentary • Africa • Somalia

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