Oxfam Canada

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March 2013 - Despite the overall food security situation stabilizing in early 2012, up to 3.75 million people continued to require humanitarian support in Ethiopia. Estimates for 2013 are still being developed but it is expected many areas of the country will continue to experience high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition, resulting from localized drought and/or low-level conflict in the south-eastern Somali region. In addition, in 2012, over 85,000 refugees arrived in Ethiopia, fleeing conflict in Somalia and South Sudan, bringing the total refugee population in the country to more than 368,000. With Canadian support, Oxfam is providing safe drinking water, adequate sanitation facilities, and protected livelihoods for an estimated 61,000 people affected by drought and food insecurity and impacted by the influx of Somali refugees into their community.