UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. warned Wednesday that the famine in East Africa hasn’t peaked and hundreds of thousands of people face imminent starvation and death without a massive global response.
U.N. deputy emergency relief coordinator Catherine Bragg appealed to the international community for $1.3 billion needed urgently to save lives.
“Every day counts,” she told the U.N. Security Council. “We believe that tens of thousands have already died.”
Bragg’s office, which coordinates U.N. humanitarian efforts, said the famine is expected to spread to all regions of southern Somalia in the next four to six weeks unless further aid can be delivered.
The global body says it has received $1.1 billion, just 46 percent of the $2.4 billion requested from donor countries.
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