"Today we need that partnership once again as we face a new drought," he said, appealing for $948 million in aid. The United Nations' humanitarian coordinator in Somalia, Peter de Clercq, warned on Tuesday of "a significant risk of further deterioration to famine", appealing for $864 million for 3.9 million Somalis. "The impact is expected to be most dire in early 2017 among livestock, with unusually early migrations, excess mortality rates and extreme emaciation," the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a statement. For Ethiopia, it was the worst drought in 50 years, and devastating for a country where eight out of 10 people depend on farming and livestock. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, property rights and climate change.

Source: Ethiopian News January 17, 2017 13:54 UTC