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30,000 targeted for emergency food relief

    NAIROBI

    The ongoing drought situation in Djibouti on Wednesday prompted WFP to announce a 414 mt emergency feeding programme targeting 30,000 people. Though drought is cyclical in Djibouti, the current cycle was causing serious food insecurity in five districts of the country, three of which border Ethiopia and Eritrea. Women, children and the elderly were extremely vulnerable while the country’s nomadic population faced increasing hardship, WFP Country Director Sanda Maina said in a press statement. A joint UN-government drought assessment indicated that between 80,000 and 100,000 people would need urgent food assistance in the coming six months if the current drought continued.

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