Eritrea - Complex Emergency
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Regional Team: ECA
Disaster Declared: 10/06/2006
Brief Description: Six years of recurring droughts resulted in acute water shortages, crop failures, livestock losses, and widespread food insecurity throughout Eritrea in 2006. Economic and political challenges, including restricted trade, fuel shortages, and high food prices, have exacerbated existing poverty and deteriorating humanitarian conditions. Although political constraints prevent comprehensive assessments, recent nutritional surveys conducted by the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Government of Eritrea Ministry of Health indicate rising malnutrition rates and high child morbidity, which are expected to continue in 2007.
On October 6, 2006, U.S. Ambassador Scott H. DeLisi renewed the Eritrea disaster declaration in response to ongoing food and water insecurity. In FY 2006, OFDA provided nearly $2 million in humanitarian assistance for Eritrea and continues to support ongoing programming in the areas of health, nutrition, livelihoods, food security, and water, sanitation and hygiene. A OFDA monitor, based in Asmara, will continue to coordinate relief activities and monitor the general humanitarian situation in Eritrea.
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