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Eritrea: Droughts

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Question for Department for International Development

UIN 19567, tabled on 10 December 2015

Question

Keir Starmer
Labour
Holborn and St Pancras
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assessment her Department has made of (a) the effect of the drought in the Horn of Africa on Eritrea and (b) the response of the Eritrean government and the international community to that drought.

Answer

Mr Nick Hurd
Conservative
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
Commons

Answered on

15 December 2015

Official food security and nutrition data for Eritrea for this year has not yet been released, but the late onset of rains, relatively low volume of rainfall, and significant soil moisture deficits are likely to have had a negative impact on both farming and pastoral communities. The country and regional offices of the World Food Programme and UNICEF are monitoring the situation closely.


DFID is funding nutrition support activities in areas affected by El Nino in the Horn of Africa through UNICEF’s regional programme, which covers Eritrea

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