This bulletin reviews the climate condition over the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) region for the month of July 2017, and also highlights the rainfall and temperature outlook for the month of September 2017, together with the socioeconomic impacts associated with both the observed and the predicted conditions. In the month of July rainfall is mainly expected in the northern sector as well as in the western part of the equatorial sector of the GHA. In July 2017, the Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) signal showed a neutral state but tending to positive index, with positive but weak Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) index as at the end of July 2017. The ONI is expected to persist in a neutral phase in the coming few months.