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Reuters

Red Cross airlifts emergency drought aid to south-eastern Ethiopia

Addis Ababa (dpa) - The International Committee of the Red Cross announced Wednesday it had begun airlifting emergency aid supplies to the drought-stricken Somali region of south-eastern Ethiopia.

A chartered airplane flew to the airport of Gode carrying pumps and water storage tanks, veterinarian equipments, medical kits and various other relief items, the ICRC said.

It said based on recent field assessments about the impact of poor rains in 2005 in parts of the Somali region in the vast Ogaden area of eastern and south-eastern Ethiopia, the ICRC was now assisting the communities in areas where the drought had "significantly affected their livelihoods and household economies."

The ICRC said it was supporting government efforts to cope with the situation in the most affected areas of Bare in the Afder Zone, all the areas along the Wabe Shebelle River in the Gode Zone, and further north in Danan, Garb and Saga, close to the border with the breakaway Somaliland.

It said the assistance being provided to the drought-affected areas of Somali region for the coming two months will mainly focus on the water and veterinary sectors and to a lesser extent on human health care and some food distribution.

"These activities are being coordinated with humanitarian assistance being provided by other organizations to the affected people in the area," it added.

Some 1.7 million rural residents in the Somali region of south-eastern Ethiopia, mostly children and the elderly, are affected by the drought, which has also hit neighbouring Somalia and Kenya.

Source: ReliefWeb.com