Ethiopia - Complex Food Insecurity
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Regional Team: ECA
Disaster Declared: 10/7/05
Brief Description: Large-scale nutrition and other multi-sectoral emergency interventions eased crisis conditions in much of the
country by late September 2005. However, USAID's Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) reports that more than 10 million people
will continue to require humanitarian assistance in 2006, with approximately 1.7 million livestock-dependent people in Somali Region
facing extreme food insecurity triggered by the failure of the October to December short (deyr) rains. Successive droughts, high cereal
prices, a livestock import ban from the Gulf States, and ongoing ethnic conflicts have increased the region's vulnerability to poor seasonal
rainfall in recent years. According to preliminary results of the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia's (GFDRE)
Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Administration (DPPA) needs assessment of Somali Region, the crisis is most acute in Afder, Liben,
and Gode zones. The current situation follows closely on the heels of the 2005 emergency, when an estimated 12 million
Ethiopians faced a large-scale complex food security crisis.
On October 7, 2005, Charge d'Affaires Vicki J. Huddleston redeclared a disaster in response to the continuing health and food insecurity
emergency in Ethiopia. In FY 2006, OFDA continues to support humanitarian activities in Ethiopia, including health and nutrition
programs, water and sanitation interventions, and agriculture and livelihoods interventions.
FY2006 Ethiopia Situation Reports
FY2006 Horn of Africa Situation Reports
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