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Ethiopia
Posted by Makeda Yasenlul on October 28th, 2011
Before the IRC arrived in Buri Lange, Ethiopia, villagers used to get water from a river three hours away. Women, who traditionally fetch water, had to walk over difficult steep terrain with heavy plastic water containers on their backs. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Ethiopia | Tags: drought, water, humanitarian aid | 3 Comments
Posted by The.IRC on September 28th, 2011
Last week at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York, IRC president George Rupp spoke with The Economist about the drought crisis in East Africa and what's being done to help. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: video, drought, George Rupp, news, natural disasters, Somali refugees, humanitarian aid, famine |
Posted by The.IRC on September 15th, 2011
Women collect fresh water at the Kobe refugee camp in southeastern Ethiopia. The IRC is providing water and sanitation services in camps in Ethiopia that collectively serve 82,000 refugees from the ongoing drought. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Ethiopia | Tags: Ethiopia, drought, sanitation, water, Somali refugees, humanitarian aid, famine, Photo of the Day |
Posted by The.IRC on September 9th, 2011
IRC president George Rupp and former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman discussed their recent opinion piece and the drought crisis in East Africa live on FOX News this morning. Watch video. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: video, drought, George Rupp, news, natural disasters, Somali refugees, Dan Glickman |
Posted by The.IRC on September 2nd, 2011
Poor rains in the Horn and East Africa have led to crop failure, loss of livestock and soaring food prices -- and famine has been declared in five areas of southern Somalia. Somali refugees must walk for days to reach the Dolo Ado camps in Ethiopia. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: refugees, Ethiopia, drought, water, Kenya, natural disasters, Somalia, Somali refugees, humanitarian aid, famine, Dolo Ado, Photo of the Day |
Posted by Sinead Murray on August 17th, 2011
Famine has gripped headlines in recent weeks. Yet the story you might not have heard is what I consider the hidden side of this crisis –- violence against women and girls. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: refugees, drought, natural disasters, Somali refugees, humanitarian aid, famine |
Posted by Elisabeth.Roesch on August 15th, 2011
At a packed Congressional briefing on August 4, my colleague Elizabeth Pender, the IRC's emergency technical advisor for women’s protection and empowerment, spoke about violence against women and girls who are fleeing the famine in Somalia. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: drought, Advocacy, take action, Somalia, women, humanitarian aid, famine, Elizabeth Pender | 2 Comments
Posted by George.Rupp on July 29th, 2011
The United Nations has declared a famine in the Horn of Africa, surprising no one who works in the region. As early as August 2010 there were indications that a crisis loomed. Now more than 3.7 million Somalis, or half of the entire population, are in need of aid. more »
Posted in Horn of Africa Drought, Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: drought, natural disasters, humanitarian aid, famine, Horn of Africa | 18 Comments
Posted by George.Rupp on July 20th, 2011
In response to increasing displacement caused by the devastating drought in the Horn of Africa and East Africa, we issued a press release and posted a Web special report earlier this month to raise public awareness of the crisis and note the IRC’s response. more »
Posted by Yolanda.Barbera on April 25th, 2011
In Africa a child dies of malaria every 45 seconds. The main reason for this is that health facilities are just too far from children's homes. To tackle this problem, the IRC has trained 11,000 villagers in six countries in Africa to treat children in their own communities -- not only for malaria, but also for other deadly conditions. more »
Posted in Health, Africa, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Uganda | Tags: children, Africa, health, humanitarian, Malaria, World Malaria Day |
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