After five consecutive below-average rains, the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa is expanding and deepening. The upcoming March-May 2023 rains are also forecast to be below-average.
Across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, an estimated 22 million people are now acutely food insecure because of the drought.
Some 5.1 million children across drought-affected areas of the three countries are acutely malnourished in 2023, with dire implications for their health, growth and survival.
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