(CNN) In a briefing at the State Department, Ambassador Johnnie Carson,
U.S. assistant secretary for African affairs, said the drought has
generated "extraordinary flows of refugees across thousands of miles of
East Africa."
Carson said in Kenya an estimated 3.6 million people have been
affected. Millions more are suffering in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Hundreds
of thousands of Somali refugees already are in Kenya and Ethiopia and
"new arrivals are coming in staggering daily rates," Carson said. Many
of them are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition, he said, and
there are many more in need in Eritrea, where a repressive regime is
refusing to provide data on the humanitarian needs of its people.
SOURCE: CNN
