Catherine Bragg (born in 1953 in Hong Kong) currently serves as Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...
agencies and international aid groups step up calls for emergency assistance funding to the more than 12.4 million people affected by the drought. Yesterday, U.N. humanitarian aid chief Catherine Bragg told the Security Council the body was more than $560 million short on funding for aid for Somalia alone.
That echoed an assessment on Wednesday by the U.N. assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, Catherine Bragg, who said further deterioration of the situation was likely because of the severe malnutrition in the region, poor rains and skyrocketing local food prices.
The U.N.'s Deputy Humanitarian chief Catherine Bragg told the Security Council that 3.7 million Somalis are in crisis due to the severe drought and famine. She said children are in particular need, with more than 1.25 million children across southern Somalia in urgent need of life-saving assistance
rgency relief coordinator this week. After the briefing, Catherine Bragg, the deputy emergency relief coordinator for the United Nations, said that in the state capital city of Kadugli it is estimated that more than 70percent of the population have been displaced and many of the 1.4million reside