Ellison Hosts Panel on Africa Famine
USAID head announces $23 million in new aid for Horn of Africa relief.
A Minneapolis forum on famine in Africa that U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN) hosted Wednesday included an announcement of $23 million in new foreign aid to meet the humanitarian crisis. Dr. Raj Shah, administrator of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), said more than $10 million of the grants and other support would go to people in hard-to-reach, drought-stricken parts of Somalia. The United States has sent more than $600 million in humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa this year, according a statement from Ellison's office. The announcement provided one answer to the question Ellison posed to the forum: "What we can do as a community …. to improve the lives of people who are suffering in the Horn of Africa?" …
