E. African hunger
Last reviewed: 09-07-2008
Global price rises and drought compound food shortages
The famine early warning network Fewsnet, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development The Humanitarian Policy Group at the London-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI) published a hard-hitting report in May 2007 highlighting critical gaps in the international aid response to food crises in the region. U.N. ReliefWeb site has an Ethiopia page and a Somalia section.
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