Highlights:
Ethiopia is currently facing its worst drought in decades, with over 8.2 million people in need of food aid until the end of the year. The deteriorating food security situation has contributed to increased malnutrition among children with an estimated 350,000 children requiring life-saving therapeutic treatment in 2015.
Floods in the Somali Region, Mustahil, Kelafo and East Imey woredas of Shaballe Zone have killed five people, displaced more than 46,500 people, affected some 102,000 others and killed some 10,000 livestock. In these areas, schools have been forced to close, health clinics are affected, water pumps and wells are destroyed. Farm land is flooded and crops destroyed.
Scabies outbreak has been reported in 22 woredas in Amhara Region.
As of October 2015, Gambella is hosting some 277,732 South Sudanese refugees. The arrival rate has gone down with almost 90 per cent since the beginning of September.
SITUATION IN NUMBERS
8.2 million people, including 4.6 million children, will require relief food assistance during the last quarter of 2015
350,000 children will require treatment for acute severe malnutrition in 2015 (Government release, October 2015)
257,561 severely malnourished children were treated between January and September 2015, of which 42,803 have been treated in August (ENCU).
652,234 total refugees in Ethiopia (UNHCR, September 2015)
UNICEF 2015 humanitarian appeal of US$55 million is 63 per cent funded