Highlights:
An additional 1.6 million people will require relief food assistance as a result of failed rainy seasons in Ethiopia, bringing the total number of relief food beneficiaries to 4.5 million.
302,605 severely malnourished children, up from 264,515 identified at the beginning of the year, will require treatment from acute severe malnutrition in 2015. 177,748 severely malnourished children were treated by July 2015 - an increase of 9.2 per cent compared with the numbers reported during the same period last year.
45 additional priority one nutrition hotspot woredas/districts were identified in the country by August, bringing the total number of priority one hotspot woredas to 142. All 142 priority one hotspot woredas will require support from the partners to deal with the elevated rates of malnutrition.
As of 1 September 2015, the number of South Sudanese refugees in the country that have arrived since the conflict in December 2013 reached 219,620. This includes 19,615 unaccompanied and separated children.
UNICEF 2015 humanitarian appeal of US$49 million is only 26 per cent funded, leaving a gap of US$36.5 million dollars.