Horn of Africa: Can We Prevent One Million Deaths Today and Worse Famines Tomorrow?
I just read a transcript of a meeting convened by Laurie Garret, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations. It’s a bit long but is chalk-full of candid conversation about the situation in the Horn of Africa, how...
Horn of Africa: LWF-Run “Safe Haven” Creates Safe Space for Women and Girls
Amidst the situation of refugees overflowing the camps at Dadaab and reports that sexual and gender-based violence has been on the rise, it is good to know that a program like the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) run “Safe Haven” exists....
Horn of Africa: UN Refugee Agency Posts New Portal for Situation Overview
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has created a great new web portal that gives up-to-date and easy to read statistics, reports and stories of the current drought in the Horn of Africa. The portal offers...
Horn of Africa: Dadaab – A Refugee’s Story
Rarely do we get to hear the story of refugees in their own words. Usually we hear about the refugee “situation” or a reporter tells us a particular refugee’s story that might involve a quote or two. So when I...
Where is the Horn of Africa? What is Going on There? Why Should I Care?
I had this set of questions come up a few times in conversation over the past week. Usually it was from people who are out in congregations sharing the message of our work and relaying back the sense they were...
Horn of Africa: Startling Statistics in UN Briefing
I just read an Aug 2nd UN press briefing on the situation in the Horn of Africa that had some pretty striking statistics. It really drove home that though things are bad now, without proper intervention they can get much...