drought

Niger: The growing food crisis in Niger February 1, 2012

There’s a crisis brewing in Niger, West Africa.

Kenya: 2.5 million bits of hope in northeast Kenya October 18, 2011

Things are not getting better in the Horn of Africa. In the nearly three months since I visited the region, the landscape has gotten drier, and people and animals have become more desperate for water and food.

Kenya: Death and drought September 22, 2011

Today the Mercy Corps Emergency Response Team headed to El-Adow in northeast Kenya, to begin our work to give cash grants to those hardest hit by the drought. As we approached the small town, the carcasses of dead livestock lay scattered all across the dust, as far as the horizon.

Somalia: Mogadishu: Conditions in camps August 30, 2011

There are over half a million people living in displacement camps in Mogadishu as a result of the famine and years of civil war. Most do not have access to clean water and basic sanitation services.

Kenya: No more trekking and a chance to go to school August 29, 2011

Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya: The purple dots represent hope August 25, 2011

Somalia: Families seeking help at a Mogadishu hospital August 25, 2011

Banadir Hospital, the government hospital in Mogadishu, is providing medical assistance to malnourished and sick people. The hospital is flooded with mothers and children, and there is a long line of people waiting to be admitted.

Somalia: Overwhelming needs in Mogadishu August 25, 2011

I just got off a Horn of Africa emergency response team phone conference involving dozens of colleagues in at least five different countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the United Kingdom and the United States.