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Three consecutive years of poor rains and the total failure of rains last April throughout the Horn of Africa have affected in particular the pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Successive droughts have also meant that traditional coping mechanisms have been exhausted, thus increasing the vulnerability of populations already in a critical condition. Concerning the livestock sector, the UN Appeal is addressing only a part of the needs for inputs needed urgently for immediate livestock health measures in the region. The requirements for each country, including regional coordination activities, are described in the project profiles, which can be downloaded from this page. Around 8 million people require emergency assistance to enable them to restart food production during the forthcoming rains starting in mid-July.