HUMANITARIAN AID: ADDITIONAL €50 MILLION TO TACKLE DROUGHT IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Published on: 07-08-2019
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The European Commission is mobilising a further €50 million in emergency humanitarian funding to help
the people hit by drought in the Horn of Africa. With many in the region relying on livestock herding and
subsistence farming, the prolonged drought is having devastating consequences on food availability and
livelihoods. Today's additional funding brings total EU humanitarian aid to the region to €366.5 million
since 2018.
Funding from this aid package will support drought-affected communities in Somalia (€25 million),
Ethiopia (€20 million), Kenya (€3 million) and Uganda (€2 million).
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