Ethiopia
Drought in the southeast pastoral regions of Ethiopia frequently kills livestock and exacerbates food insecurity. Five ACT members in 2008 conducted programmes to meet the immediate and long-term needs of 120,900 people and their livestock in the critically affected Oromia, Gambella, SNNPR, and Amhara Regions.
Latest from Ethiopia
Ethiopia: medication needed to tackle measles
Aug 30, 2011
Measles outbreaks, decaying animal carcasses and even ash contamination from volcanic activity are combining to threaten lives in the Afar communities of Ethiopia, but ACT is working hard to address the needs of a struggling community further impoverished by drought.
Ethiopia: the elderly have stopped eating
Aug 18, 2011
Ethiopian elders are starving themselves out for the sake of the children
Ethiopia: setting up camp on hard soil
Aug 15, 2011
Officials must decide whether a new extension to Dollo Odo is needed, just weeks after a fourth camp there was opened