Calls for the U.S. government to:

• use all available leverage to achieve lasting, comprehensive cease-fires in cases of conflict in Africa;
• work with governments to facilitate disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of combatants;
• use the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to sanction individuals or entities responsible for initiating or prolonging conflict, endangering humanitarian aid workers, or preventing delivery of humanitarian aid;
• apply all available weather and crop information to more accurately predict incipient drought and to determine the likelihood of famine in conflict areas;
• collaborate with other donor nations to accelerate the provision of food, clean water, medicine, and shelter to those in need;
• expand the prepositioning of aid commodities in safe zones close to the famine region;
• provide assistance to farmers, herders, and fishermen; and
• use cash transfers to more quickly provide food aid where local markets exist and to support the functioning of local markets.

Urges governments in affected African countries to:

• establish effective cease-fires and use force thereafter only when government forces or facilities or civilians are under attack;
• identify and take actions against individuals and entities that actively threaten peace and safety;
• work with civil society to help end conflict at the grassroots level and effect reconciliation;
• take specifed actions to promote the delivery of food, clean water, medicine, and shelter;
• protect humanitarian aid workers; and
• safeguard agricultural areas and farm personnel.