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Battle against Hunger in Horn of Africa to Lose
    24 June, 2009 ( CRIENGLISH.COM ) - The
    International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
    Societies (IFRC) has said the world is slowly losing the
    battle against hunger in the Horn of Africa.

    The IFRC issued the stark warning as it renewed its call
    for support to assist nearly 2.5 million food insecure
    people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia with
    emergency food, water and recovery activities.

"The battle against persistent, chronic malnutrition and hunger is at risk
of slowly being lost. Our message to the world is simple: in the Horn of
Africa, hunger, a result of chronic, major deficit in calorie intake, kills,"
Dr. Asha Mohammed, head of IFRC's Eastern Africa zone said in a
statement issued in Nairobi on Wednesday.

During 2008 IFRC reached and now has continued to assist more than
465,000 people in the four countries.

While the organization itself advances more than 10 million Swiss francs
(about 9.2 million U.S. dollars) from its own reserves toward the
operation, last year's emergency appeal only received a meagre 9
percent coverage.

According to IFRC, more than 2.2 million East Africans were also
reached through punctual minor and medium disaster interventions in
2008.

Lack of resources and adequate assistance has already resulted in
conflicts between neighboring communities in Kenya, confirming earlier
IFRC warnings.

The organization said the coordinated work of authorities and the Red
Cross Red Crescent in these very regions has been further complicated
by outbreaks of Acute Watery Diarrhoea and cholera.

"These are a result of increased concentration of semi-nomadic
populations and their animals around the few water points that still
function following several years of prolonged drought in the region and
poor sanitation," it said.

Clashes have taken place in Red Cross operation areas around Mandera,
in northern Kenya and on the fluid borders with Ethiopia and Somalia.

It said lives have been lost and people displaced during these conflicts
that risk being replicated elsewhere in the Horn of Africa.

Across the region desperate pastoralists converge with their exhausted
livestock from long distances towards the few remaining water sources.

"After having walked for days, people and cattle have to wait an
additional three to four days before being able to access an already
overused borehole. We need the means to do more," says Abbas Gullet,
secretary general of the Kenya Red Cross.

His message was echoed by his Ethiopian counterpart Fasika Kabede
who said: "Unless we are able to offer people sufficient aid and
livelihood alternatives, their situation will only worsen. We have the
capacity and the skill to do more. But we need more resources to
continue this battle."

In Djibouti, the IFRC is teaming up with WFP to assist some 50, 000
destitute pastoralists affected by four consecutive droughts. In Somalia,
where the WHO estimates that in 50 percent of under- five mortality
malnutrition is an underlying factor, the Red Crescent is ready to add
eight health clinics to its existing network of 50 mobile and fix health
facilities.

"In Somalia child mortality rates due to Acute Respiratory Infections
(ARI), diarrhoea, measles and malaria are among the highest in the
world. These are further worsened by poor nutrition. We need to reach
these children before it's too late," said Dr. Ahmed M. Hassan, president
of the Somali Red Crescent.

"Food assistance is only a fraction of the solution to peoples' problems.
Food-aid is critical but its impact ends as soon as it gets digested," said
Roger Bracke who is leading IFRC's work in the Horn of Africa.

"This operation urgently needs more support to enable it to assist the
worst affected to develop alternative and additional sources of income
that will allow them to become self-sustainable without total reliance on
animals or rains."

The IFRC revised emergency appeal seeks 67 million U.S. dollars to
assist 2.5 million people over a five year period.

It takes into account the increased vulnerability in Kenya over the past
few months and increases by nearly 300,000 the total number of
beneficiaries.