ETHIOPIA Humanitarian Situation Report
1) ETHIOPIA Humanitarian Situation Report Mother and children seeking assistance in Afar ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2015/Tesfaye SitRep #5 – Reporting Period September 2015 SITUATION IN NUMBERS 8.2 million people, including 4.6 Highlights: million children, will require relief food In October, the Government announced that about 8.2 million people in Ethiopia, including 4.6 million children, are in need of emergency food assistance during the last quarter of aid, up from the 4.5 million estimated in August. 2015 The estimated number of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) for 2015 increased from 302,605 to 350,000. 350,000 children will require treatment A total of 42,803 children were treated in August 2015, a 27 per cent for acute severe malnutrition in 2015 increase from 32,304 children in July 2015. Between January and (Government release, October 2015) August 2015, 219,617 children have been treated for SAM; this is a 27 per cent increase compared with the numbers reported during the same 219,617 severely malnourished period in 2014. children were treated between January An estimated 735,150 school children in 94 woredas in Afar, Amhara, and August 2015, of whom 42,803 Dire Dawa, Harari, Oromia, SNNPR, Somali and Tigray regions have dropped out of school due to the current drought emergency. were treated in August (ENCU). The Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS) has issued a flood Alert. High-risk areas include Somali, SNNPR and 652,234 total refugees in Ethiopia Oromia regions. (UNHCR, September 2015) UNICEF Ethiopia has increased its 2015 humanitarian appeal to US$55 million from the US$49 million revised in May 2015.
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