Press Release: Commissioner Georgieva announces new humanitarian funding for famine and drought victims

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Series Details IP/11/920 (23.7.11)
Publication Date 23/07/2011
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Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, announced new aid funding for famine and drought victims on the first day of a visit to Kenya on 23 July 2011.

The Commission is making an immediate allocation of 27.8 million euros, which comes on top of the 70 million euros already given to the region in 2011, in response to the worsening humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa.

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European Commission: Memo/11/536: The humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa and the European Commission’s humanitarian response http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/536&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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