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HORN OF AFRICA
Environment and Disasters
IGAD leaders commit to emergency fund
Environment and Disasters
News
21 March 2006
21 Mar 2006
Food
UN envoy calls for support to drought-affected people
Food
News
17 March 2006
17 Mar 2006
Environment and Disasters
Environmental health key to decreasing incidence of drought
Environment and Disasters
Feature
14 March 2006
14 Mar 2006
Environment and Disasters
Interview with Klaus Toepfer, UNEP executive director
Environment and Disasters
Interview
14 March 2006
14 Mar 2006
Environment and Disasters
Millions face hunger, in urgent need of aid
Environment and Disasters
Feature
7 March 2006
7 Mar 2006
Environment and Disasters
UN envoy urges quick response to drought crisis
Environment and Disasters
News
21 February 2006
21 Feb 2006
Environment and Disasters
EC gives €5 m for drought-affected people
Environment and Disasters
News
9 February 2006
9 Feb 2006
Environment and Disasters
New United Nations envoy named
Environment and Disasters
News
6 February 2006
6 Feb 2006
Food
Millions facing critical food shortages
Food
News
6 February 2006
6 Feb 2006
More effort needed to prevent avian flu
News
30 January 2006
30 Jan 2006
Human Rights
Children hardest hit by drought, says UNICEF
Human Rights
News
25 January 2006
25 Jan 2006
Food
Eleven million people facing hunger - FAO
Food
News
10 January 2006
10 Jan 2006
Conflict
UNMEE monitoring tense border despite setbacks
Conflict
News
16 December 2005
16 Dec 2005
Conflict
UN relocates expelled staff from Eritrea to Ethiopia
Conflict
News
15 December 2005
15 Dec 2005
Countries prepare to control possible spread of avian flu
News
28 October 2005
28 Oct 2005
Countries prepare to control possible spread of avian flu
News
28 October 2005
28 Oct 2005
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![[Kenya] UN special humanitarian envoy for the Horn of Africa, Kjell Magne Bondevik, walks past livestock carcases in drought-hit Kajiado district, Kenya. [Date picture taken: 02/26/2006]](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/20063178.jpg?gjspIvUfRegDKt67tXJRnxFkgON4.Quu&itok=3lznrQQ1)
![[Kenya] Desperate pastoralists lead their animals up to 100km to water, here at the desolate Arbajahan borehole, 460 miles north-east of Nairobi in Wajir district, only to see them die from exhaustion when they arrive. Wajir is arguably the epicentre of K](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/20063816.jpg?mH8eX5YJmzexTCIfzy2PT2CQ_G6xo6Oq&itok=9zdc2g6u)
![[Kenya] Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). [Date picture taken: 02 February 2005]](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/20063830.jpg?S9sQc7WFseLsIgrrFqA3EPYzLDgcfhTJ&itok=fN9Z3R5e)
![[Kenya] Rain has not fallen in northern Kenya for two years and half of all cows and sheep are already dead. Even camels are succumbing, often just as they arrive at the relative refuge of boreholes like this one at Dambas, 80 miles north of provincial ca](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/2006380.jpg?0DDiNoDX51ta3LxKd6EeXuc9X_rfrLb4&itok=pdh9f3rx)
![[Somalia] Nishey Iman, 22, and her daughter prepare edible leaves for cooking on 3 December as food shortages worsen in south Somalia. [Date picture taken: 12/03/2005]](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/20051254.jpg?KI_PoBVbD7kC_LdjE8XO5jovJ4.wm16b&itok=MAptKeID)
![[Somalia] Adey Mohamed Nur, who abandoned her village with her two children, as a result of drought in Bakool region. [Date picture taken: 01/28/2006]](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/20061312.jpg?kh2Irs9e3l5qBXCAYXPx6ABz2f0ccYcH&itok=23na8e7E)
![[Senegal] Whole, live, Senegalese birds are squeezed out of the market by frozen thighs and wings, imported from Europe and America. [Date picture taken: 12/16/2005]](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/200512166.jpg?BLJnjaAQBUWoWKMustyXYw1Ax8h0iPm2&itok=Zjuzd1ON)
![[Eritrea] Cattle killed by the prolonged drought in Gash Barka province.](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/20055193.jpg?ViZESMdn98NgB5xUS6o_W_SQxUyDO8b.&itok=AmbSmktn)
![[Eritrea] Eritrean trenches near Senafe](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/2052219.jpg?nvTIPMQiveB15w3pH.bmImewsiAo2GFG&itok=p5lK9nQV)
![[Eritrea] Indian peacekeepers guard Mereb bridge.](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/2003841.jpg?d8CuCSFPxgo.fiwGCHvOdygWdU9YfeqY&itok=xGuz6tEt)
![[Tajikistan] Woman holding chicken](http://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb/public/images/210144.jpg?GAtYK3quly5zkK0hI7pOYdCjqY9STEan&itok=6wu7ZC1X)
