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Famine no more
A year ago, in July 2011, I travelled to Dollow, a Somali border town, the last stop for refugees from war and hunger before they crossed into neighbouring Ethiopia. The severe drought, combined with...
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Somalia and Syria, optimism and worry
photo source: UK Foreign Office In London today the sun is shining and there is a sense of spring in the air. I have just emerged from a humanitarian meeting at the Somalia conference and the weather...
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Welcome to a world of seven billion people
A newborn baby’s first cry has just marked a world record – the seven billionth person living on our planet was born. Each new life is a new hope. And yet, all too many hopes get crushed by poverty and...
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The refugee camp you did not know about
Exactly three months ago, the United Nations declared famine in Somalia. Throughout the entire Horn of Africa, drought has thrown more than 13 million people into a humanitarian crisis with no quick...
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Libya: Six months down the road
A lot has happened since my last post, and not just in the Horn of Africa, about which my colleagues and I have told you so much recently. The emergency in Libya has entered a new stage, and you can...
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Keeping the bigger picture in focus
I am just back from the African Union “Pledging Conference on Drought and Famine for the Horn of Africa” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In spite of some of the negative coverage the conference received in...
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Kenyans for Kenya: National solidarity for drought victims
I am preparing to travel to the Horn of Africa again – this time to Ethiopia. Tomorrow I will attend the pledging conference on the drought and hunger, organised by the African Union with the goal to...
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Meet the foot soldiers of relief aid
We, the Commission, deliver European humanitarian aid in partnership with the world’s best respected organisations on the field. You certainly know most of them – UN agencies like the High...
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Desperate for rains
Today I have invited a guest blogger – Martin Karimi is in Kenya where he is part of our humanitarian team working on the Horn of Africa crisis. He wrote this poignant account of his recent trip to...
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Why Moyale suffers less
I am currently flying back to Nairobi from the remote arid lands of the pastoral clans of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, where the impact of the drought would have been far worse if not for some...
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