15m in Africa face 'disaster'

Nairobi: Nearly 15 million people in the Horn of Africa region are facing a humanitarian disaster unless donors urgently release funds to deliver supplies, aid agencies warned on Tuesday.

In a region beset by conflict and piracy, prolonged drought and rising inflation have exacerbated human suffering especially among the rural and urban poor, they said.

The World Food Programme said it urgently needed $403m to feed the hungry people in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda until year-end.

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