Source: Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) |

UN emergency fund allocates $45 million to stave off famine risk in the Horn of Africa

The bulk of the funds, $30 million, will go to Somalia where 2.2 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity by September

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock today allocated US$45 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to immediately scale up food and nutrition assistance, safe water provision, livelihoods protection, and other urgent humanitarian support to drought-affected people across parts of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya who…