Eastern Africa is experiencing what has been described as the "most severe food crisis in the world today", with at least 10 million people affected in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
In Ethiopia, the estimated number of people in need of emergency food and non-food assistance was revised upwards from 2.8 million to 3.2 million.
Among those who can afford it, thousands are fleeing their homes in the hopes to find food and water. Most of those who have died include children, the elderly and pregnant or nursing mothers.
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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93092
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