Watchlist Crisis Alert: Unnatural Disaster in East Africa

For the first time ever, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is putting out a crisis alert to its annual Emergency Watchlist report. The IRC is calling for urgent action in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya, with specific concern for intensifying famine in Somalia that has been dangerously neglected by the international community.

By the time a famine is officially declared later this year, it will be too late to save hundreds of thousands of lives.