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Australia for UNHCR
A number of countries in East Africa, including Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan, are in the grips of a worsening drought. In Somalia, however, the failed rains have combined with ongoing conflict and displacement to push nearly half the country's population ? some 3.7 million people ? to the brink of starvation.
In some areas of southern Somalia, rates of acute malnutrition have reached a staggering 50%, claiming the lives of dozens of people a day. Our country staff are working around the clock to register Somali refugees flooding into Kenya and Ethiopia and provide them with dry food rations, tents and essential items like kitchen sets, firewood and fuel efficient stoves. We are also assessing the health of new arrivals in the camps, providing the malnourished with therapeutic feeding to rapidly stabilise their condition.
Please donate today to make a difference and help save the lives of those fleeing conflict and famine in the Horn of Africa.
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