Early warnings need to result in early action in Somalia

From Oxfam Horn, East and Central Africa Blog Thu Jul 24 2014, 08:04:23

Eight warnings of catastrophe so far July 20th marks three years since the UN declared famine in Somalia . The catastrophe facing the Somali people three years ago ended in at least 260,000 people dying, half of them children. In May this year, 26 organisations came together to call for the world to remember Somalia. [...]

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