The UN had appealed for $7 billion and only received $1.6 billion – not enough to help the 43.3 million people in need in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya or even the 21 million who do not have enough to eat.
The United States is the largest donor of humanitarian aid to the region, and Linda Thomas Greenfield, the United States representative to the United Nations, told the donors’ conference that the new funding of $524 million would bring the total US humanitarian contribution to the region at $1.4. billion for the fiscal year ending September 30. From next September.
Greenfield said during her visit to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, last September that she had seen and heard firsthand “how drought has affected food supplies and increased the risk of famine”, and announced more than $40 million in additional funding for the country.
“Unfortunately, the humanitarian needs in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are now greater than ever, with more than 23.5 million people facing acute food insecurity,” she said in a statement.
“That’s why the United States continues to support the humanitarian response in the Horn of Africa with this new funding,” she added.
The United States said its new funding will support refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, stateless people and the millions affected by conflict, drought and food insecurity.
Greenland added that approximately $108 million in additional funding came from the US State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, and more than $416 million came from the US Agency for International Development. .
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