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Nearly 350 million Africans – more than a quarter of the continent’s entire population – are facing a food-security crisis caused by a combination of conflict, climate shocks like drought in East Africa and poor rains in West Africa, a dramatic rise in displacement, lingering Covid impacts, and most recently surging food and fuel prices aggravated by the conflict in Ukraine, the ICRC says…
The food crisis spans Africa from Mauritania and Burkina Faso in the west to Somalia and Ethiopia in the east, and “millions of families [are] skipping meals every day, an alarming hunger situation that risks intensifying in the coming months,” the International Committee said in a press release issued in Nairobi last week.
Dominik Stillhart, head ICRC global operations, said: “This is a disaster going largely unnoticed. Millions of families are going hungry and children are dying because of malnutrition.
“We are scaling up our operations in countries like Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria and Burkina Faso and many others to try and help as many people as we can, but the number of people going without food and water is staggering.”
The UN mission in Somalia today put at 6 million the number of people there “experiencing high levels of food insecurity; urgent funding is required to prevent the loss of lives and avert the risk of famine,” UNSOM tweeted.
