drought

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Niger: Update from the field: Food crisis is just beginning March 22, 2012

After a failed harvest and severe drought in 2011, more than 5.5 million people in Niger are already without enough to eat — and the next harvest isn't until October.
Niger: "There is nothing to eat" March 15, 2012

During the two weeks I recently spent with in Niger with our emergency response teams, I kept hearing the same thing over and over: There is nothing to eat.
Niger: The growing food crisis in Niger February 1, 2012

There’s a crisis brewing in Niger, West Africa.
Ethiopia, Kenya: Responding to historic drought November 8, 2011

Here's a video report from my trip last month to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa. It focuses on Ethiopia, where Mercy Corps is providing medical care to malnourished children, restoring them to health using medicines, vitamins and food formulated especially for underfed infants.
Kenya: 2.5 million bits of hope in northeast Kenya October 18, 2011

Things are not getting better in the Horn of Africa. In the nearly three months since I visited the region, the landscape has gotten drier, and people and animals have become more desperate for water and food.
Kenya: Death and drought September 22, 2011

Today the Mercy Corps Emergency Response Team headed to El-Adow in northeast Kenya, to begin our work to give cash grants to those hardest hit by the drought. As we approached the small town, the carcasses of dead livestock lay scattered all across the dust, as far as the horizon.
Somalia: Mogadishu: Conditions in camps August 30, 2011

There are over half a million people living in displacement camps in Mogadishu as a result of the famine and years of civil war. Most do not have access to clean water and basic sanitation services.
Kenya: No more trekking and a chance to go to school August 29, 2011
Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya: The purple dots represent hope August 25, 2011
Somalia: Families seeking help at a Mogadishu hospital August 25, 2011

Banadir Hospital, the government hospital in Mogadishu, is providing medical assistance to malnourished and sick people. The hospital is flooded with mothers and children, and there is a long line of people waiting to be admitted.