East Africa Children's Crisis - August 2018 Situation Report

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Wednesday, September 19, 2018
  • Humanitarian needs: An estimated 30 million people across East Africa region are in need of humanitarian assistance. Various crises like conflict, drought, floods, and disease outbreaks and rising cost of fuel and food prices have left them extremely vulnerable.
  • Conflict a major driver of forced displacements: Conflict has forced over 8 million people to flee their homes across, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia. Conflict is the largest driver of displacement – with children often witnessing or experiencing horrific violence, exploitation and abuse. Internal conflicts in the Oromia, SNNP and Somali regions has led to a mass displacement crisis in the southern part of Ethiopia, prompting a surge in the number of people needing urgent humanitarian assistance. In Sudan there are at least 2 million internally displaced persons, a large number in the Darfur region.
  • Families are food insecure: An estimated 17 million people in South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, have limited access to food. A combination of poor crop harvests in the last season, high price of fuel, which has resulted into the high cost of commodities, and effects of floods has forced families to rely on humanitarian assistance. Additionally, conflict has driven millions out of their homes and farms, disrupting their means of livelihoods and source of income. In the absence of humanitarian assistance, populations at most risk such as children, pregnant and nursing mothers, risk the deadly malnutrition.
  • World Vision response: World Vision is responding to the needs of children and their families disrupted by disaster in South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, reaching more than 3 million people in August 2018. Still, large-scale, long-term lifesaving assistance as well as support in recovery is needed to respond to the needs of populations affected by the effects of conflict, threatened by diseases and natural disasters like drought and floods. For more information, please read or download our August 2018 situation report.