To fight the famine threatening millions of people in the Horn of Africa and neighbouring South Sudan, the EU is to mobilise €165 million in additional emergency aid(see EUROPE 11730).
This was announced by European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica from Addis Ababa on Friday 17 March who, while he was there, met the new leader of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat. "With this additional support, the EU shows the way to other members...