Failed seasonal rains across East Africa will drive millions of people to hunger and poverty unless swift action is taken, an aid group said Thursday.
Oxfam said some areas had received less than 5 percent of the normal November rains and that many people are malnourished in Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. It is the sixth failed rainy season for war-ravaged Somalia and the worst drought there for 20 years, the group said.
The report says cattle prices have tumbled from $200 to $4 in some areas as families try to sell dying animals to buy food. One clinic in Tanzania has reported a 400 percent increase in malnutrition cases since August, the agency said, and in Kenya a fatal outbreak of cholera killed more than 120 people in the past month.
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