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Caritas Switzerland Annual Report of Activities - CARITAS - Schweiz

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How can<br />

East Africa<br />

be helped<br />

effectively?<br />

Around 13 million people were victims <strong>of</strong> the famine in East<br />

Africa in 2011, one <strong>of</strong> the most severe droughts in 60 years.<br />

How could this humanitarian tragedy happen? The disastrous<br />

food shortages in the Horn <strong>of</strong> Africa cannot be explained<br />

by the drought alone. The fact is that the extreme<br />

climate affected those regions already characterised by a<br />

weak and backward agriculture.<br />

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