Half of all children at risk of life-threatening malnutrition in refugee camp (Action against Hunger)

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Horn of Africa: Food Crisis Intensifies for Ethiopians and Among Somali Refugees

Nearly half of all children at risk of life-threatening malnutrition in refugee camp along Somalia-Ethiopia border

As thousands of Somali families continue to pour into the Dollo Ado camps of Ethiopia seeking refuge from drought and devastating food crises, Action Against Hunger is racing to scale up its programs in response to extremely high malnutrition rates among refugees and heightened food insecurity among Ethiopians in the South.

Action Against Hunger’s programs seek to address the needs in Hiloweyn camp, the newest refugee camp to open in Dollo Ado, which now houses some 25,000 refugees. Since August, incoming rates have only accelerated: 4,200 refugees arrived during the first 10 days of October alone. And as Somali refugees gather in camps along the Ethiopian border, some 4.5 million Ethiopians are themselves facing threatening levels of food insecurity as a result of the ongoing crisis. According to the Ethiopian government, the country has experienced a 40 percent increase in food insecurity across the country.

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