Background

The Horn of Africa is currently facing a humanitarian crisis of serious proportions, primarily due to a severe drought. The worst drought-affected populations are pastoralists in southern and eastern Ethiopia, southern Somalia, and northern Kenya. Other countries affected by the drought include Eritrea, Djibouti, Sudan, and Uganda. Many areas have experienced successive drought conditions, conflict, and insecurity, which have exacerbated the current humanitarian situation. As a result, the drought in the Horn of Africa has resulted in increased stress migration to urban or food secure areas, crop failure, the loss or sale of assets such as livestock, increased food prices coupled with decreased profits from assets, and tensions heightened by lack of basic resources.