United States aid chief Samantha Power promised $1.18 billion to help avert famine in the Horn of Africa and urged other nations including China to do more to fight a food crisis aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Power, administrator of the US Agency for International Development, says the situation was especially dire in turbulent Somalia, conflict-hit Ethiopia, and Kenya, the so-called Horn of Africa which is forecast to experience its fifth straight drought later this year.
Power says the $1.18 billion in US aid would include emergency food as well as a peanut-based supplement for malnourished children and veterinary services for dying livestock.