2006 Horn of Africa food crisis

Drought is a predictable event in the Horn of Africa, and when combined with other factors it causes conflict and terrible human misery. In the present 2006 drought, claims about factors transforming drought into famine include a ban on livestock imports to markets in the Persian Gulf States, which has reduced the income of livestock-dependent farmers, further increasing food insecurity. The population in East Africa had increased rapidly in the decades before the food crisis. From 67 million in 1950 to 306 million in 2006. ==Crisis==

(FEWS), USAID. Djibouti Djibouti was a severely drought affected; the FAO estimated that about one third of the population (400 000 people) needed food aid. As of January 6, 2006, approximately 30 deaths were reported. Some 2.5 million people (10% of the population) Somalia Somalia was the least affected out of the four countries. About two million people in the country's southern pastoral regions required humanitarian assistance. ==Relief effort==

In February 2006, UNICEF warned that 1.5 million children under the age of five were being threatened by the drought and called for $16 million USD to help fund its relief efforts in the region. ==See also==