EU boosts Horn of Africa aid

European Union International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva has announced that EU will boost its humanitarian aid in the Horn of Africa to aid hundreds of thousands dying of starvation and other drought related complications.The announcement comes after Georgieva visited the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya and parts of Somalia, where hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees are facing starvation.The EU commissioner said that Europe will donate $40 Million aid package to alleviate the suffering of so many people in the Horn of Africa, saying that the EU had already sent €70 million.An estimated 3.7 million people in Somalia — around a third of the population — are on the brink of starvation after they were badly affected by worst drought in the region in 60 years.UN officials say the drought has killed tens of thousands of people in recent months, forcing hundreds of thousands of desperate survivors from the worst-affected areas of Somalia to walk for weeks in search of food and water.Maqaaladda La Xiriira:

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