Irish humanitarian organisations have joined forces to sound the alarm on the risk of widespread famine in the Horn of Africa at a briefing to Irish politicians in Dublin. An immediate scaling up of aid is now the only hope to avoid starvation for hundreds of thousands of people, writes Liam Fitzpatrick Forty-eight seconds. In the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee, one person in the Horn of Africa is likely dying of hunger in one of the most severe humanitarian…
