New York (dpa) – A UN donors conference in New York for countries in the Horn of Africa raised 2.4 billion dollars (roughly 2.2. billion euros), including 210 million euros from Germany. The money is intended to help people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia who are suffering from drought, conflict and economic crises, the UN said on Wednesday. Over 30 million people need aid.
UN Secretary General António Guterres said that the region had been further destabilised by the fighting in Sudan. ‘We must act now to prevent a crisis from becoming a catastrophe,’ he said.
Over the next two years Germany will provide 210 million euros to ease the suffering of people in the Horn of Africa. According to the Federal Foreign Office’s own figures, its budget for humanitarian aid in 2023 amounted to 2.7 billion euros.
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