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7 June 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 20:57 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The world’s worst food security crisis is continuing in the eastern Horn of Africa, a US agency has warned.<\/p>\n

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) said areas of particular concern were in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.<\/p>\n

It said large-scale emergency assistance was urgently needed “to save lives and treat acute malnutrition” in the region.<\/p>\n

It also stressed that the current humanitarian response was “inadequate”.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Fewsnet said the eastern Horn of Africa “has experienced two consecutive seasons of significantly below-average rainfall, resulting in one of the driest years since 1995”.<\/p>\n

It said that crops had failed and local cereal prices remained very high.<\/p>\n

“This is the most severe food security emergency in the world today,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

In southern Ethiopia and some pastoral areas of Somalia, the agency said, “poor households are unable to access the basic food supplies needed for survival”.<\/p>\n

Fewsnet also said that recent nutrition surveys suggested that global acute malnutrition remained above 20% in the region, and more than seven million people needed humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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