Horn of Africa Humanitarian Crisis: Factsheet, 15 July 2011

The crisis at a glance

• 10.7 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance

• Extremely high levels of child malnutrition are being reported in multiple locations

• Relief operations need to be scaled up, as access to the worst affected areas in Somalia becomes a possibility

• Total humanitarian requirements are US$1.87 billion: about US$1 billion is still needed