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In Africa, if current trends of population growth and soil degradation continue, the continent might be able to feed just 25% of its population by 2025, according to United Nations University (UNU)'s Ghana-based Institute for Natural Resources in Africa. [50] Famine-affected areas in the western Sahel belt during the 2012 drought.
The Sahel region of Africa has long experienced a series of historic droughts, dating back to at least the 17th century. The Sahel region is a climate zone sandwiched between the Sudanian Savanna to the south and the Sahara desert to the north, across West and Central Africa. While the frequency of drought in the region is thought to have ...
The famine in the southeast of the country was brought about by the Derg's counterinsurgency efforts against the OLF. However, most media referring to "the Ethiopian famine" of the 1980s refers to the severe famine in 1983-85 centered on Tigray and northern Wollo, which further affected Eritrea, Begemder and northern Shewa. [32]
1899 famine in central Kenya; 1983 famine in Ghana; B. Biafran airlift; ... Food security in Malawi; H. 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis; Horn of Africa drought (2020 ...
The last time the FRC declared a famine was in 2017, when 80,000 people in South Sudan faced famine conditions in parts of Unity State after three years of civil war.
There is a realistic chance of famine in 14 areas across Sudan if the war that began in April last year escalates, a global monitor said on Thursday, in a sharply worsening hunger crisis that the ...
Famine caused by the Allied blockade of Germany during World War I until Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles. [115] Germany: 763,000: 1917: Famine in German East Africa: German East Africa: 300,000: 1917–1919: Persian famine of 1917–1919: Iran: 2,000,000, [116] but estimates range as high as 10,000,000 [117] 1918–1919
CAIRO (Reuters) -Sudan on Sunday denied the existence of famine in North Darfur's Zamzam camp for internally displaced people, while an aid group said there was a risk of a severe shortage of ...