By The Numbers
By The Numbers
Figures for populations in desperate need of life-saving assistance now stand at 12.4 million people. The launch of the Humanitarian Requirements Document for the Horn of Africa drought will take place Friday 29 July in Geneva. Providing donors with an immediate overview of most critical needs across the Horn, the document covers Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti.
The Humanitarian Requirements Document draws on the latest updates of each country’s humanitarian plan to outline both the needs and response plans arising from the drought, both country-specific and with a regional overview. It will reflect the major emergency revisions of the Somalia and Kenya CAPs currently being prepared by the Humanitarian Country Teams.
Day By Day:
- 1,300 new refugees are arriving daily in Kenya from Somalia, to transit points and to the Dabaab camps
- Some 1,000 IDPs arrive to Mogadishu daily
- Several hundred Somalis are arriving in Ethiopia daily (a reduction from nearly 2,000 a day one month ago)
- Estimates indicate up to 2,500 people in southern Somalia will be dying of starvation each day by the end of August (USAID, 27 July)
Between July 15 and July 22 the total number of people in need of assistance rose by 858,145. An increase of another 817,379 people since July 22 means over 1.6 million more people are in need of assistance than less than a fortnight ago.
In addition to the documented, daily IDP flows, refugee numbers are rising fast as those in camps are successfully registered.
Without the needed additional voluntary contributions, it is anticipated that the impact of the famine may spread throughout southern Somalia and over the borders into neighbouring countries within the coming one to two months.
Of the affected countries, Ethiopia has the highest absolute number of affected population as well as affected refugees, followed closely by Somalia (left hand chart)
However, when the population in need of assistance is looked at as a percentage of the total country population, Djibouti is 2nd-worst affected (right hand chart)
Ressources
Kenya Humanitarian Update - 20 September 2011
HIGHLIGHTS
* A recount of applicants for refugee status in Dadaab has found large numbers attempting double registration. The apparent large backlog in applications for registration has been adjusted from 40,000 to 1,909. The average daily arrival rate for the past week was about 1,100 people per day.
* Deteriorating security situation along Somali border and around Dadaab; a vehicle belonging to an international NGO has been hijacked in Hagadera camp.
* Maize prices are on a downward trend but remain significantly above the five-year average.
OCHA Somalia Famine & Drought Situation Report No. 14, dated 20 September (covering the period from 15 to 20 September)
HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES
.Partners are scaling up response activities in order to reach the worst-affected population to avert further unnecessary deaths. Food assistance partners have reached 1.39 million people in crisis so far in the first two weeks of September, compared to 1.3 million throughout the month of August.
.An estimated 585,000 urban dwellers in Somalia are projected to be in crisis by December if interventions are not scaled up, a quarter more than the first half of the year.
.According to UNICEF, children constitute 80 per cent of the worst-affected population in the current famine.
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