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USAID to provide Djibouti $1.1 million in drought aid
Djibouti-USA, Economics, 4/17/2006
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide $1.1 million to the World Food Program for its drought emergency operations in Djibouti with 2,000 metric tons in food commodities to the country. USAID called on donor governments to act quickly "to help alleviate the current suffering and to help prevent human catastrophe in the Horn of Africa."
The drought in the region is particularly serious for about 7 million farmers and herders in northeastern Kenya, southern Somalia, southern Ethiopia and parts of Djibouti, according to the agency. People in these areas urgently need both food assistance and non-food assistance such as medicines, immunizations, water-well rehabilitation and emergency livestock intervention. Since October 2005, USAID has contributed $800,000 in emergency humanitarian food assistance to Djibouti.
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