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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11134
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) somalia

EU increases its emergency aid by €10 million

Brussels, 01/08/2014 (Agence Europe) - In response to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Somalia - with the country again being threatened with famine - the EU will allocate a further €10 million in emergency aid, to be targeted at the most needy, the European Commission announced on Friday 1 August.

The funding will be taken from the budget of the European Commission's humanitarian aid and civil protection department (ECHO) and will finance the provision of basic healthcare and...