- The EU must scale up its emergency humanitarian assistance to countries in the Horn of Africa which are facing famine following the worst droughts in a generation, MEPs urged the European Commission.
- The region’s countries import about 90% of their cereal products from Russia and Ukraine, and the effects of the ongoing conflict on wheat and grain imports, fertiliser and other agricultural inputs, are compounding a bleak situation.
- The civil war in Ethiopia has also deflected attention from the imminent famine that faces 7.5 million people in Somalia.
MEPs urge EU to step up humanitarian aid as Horn of Africa faces famine
