Highlights:
Below average/failed Belg rains (the short rains from February-April) is expected to affect the food security of poor households in SNNPR, Oromia, Amhara and in pastoral areas of Afar and Somali regions (Famine Early Warning System Network, FEWSNET).
Humanitarian needs in Ethiopia will also increase during the second half of the year following the poor Belg rains and delayed Kiremt rains (long rains from May-September). (FEWSNET)
The revised 2015 Humanitarian Requirement Document (HRD)
Government and Partners’ Strategic Response Plan and Humanitarian Appeal was launched on 18 August 2015.The admission rate for Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in May (26,045) is 10 per cent higher than April.
As of August 8, 2015, the number of South Sudanese refugees in the country that have arrived since the conflict in December 2013 reached 215,358. This includes 19,581 unaccompanied and separated children.