A severe drought and resulting famine has gripped the Horn of Africa since mid-summer. The worst drought in 60 years has caused a severe food crisis in and beyond the borders of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. For the first time in 30 years, the United Nations officially declared a state of famine in southern Somalia [...]
Thursday, August 11, 2011
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By Kim Plummer Krull After seeing firsthand the suffering as starving Somalis pour into the Dadaab refugee camps, Dr. Walter Obare, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK), is requesting additional financial support to meet urgent needs as the deadly famine spreads in East Africa. Obare described how some 1,500 refugees enter the [...]
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Friday, November 11, 2011
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