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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.
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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
Ghana is located between 4.5° and 11.5° N latitude and 3.5° W and 1.3° E longitude and covers the typical agro-ecological zones of West Africa.Administratively, Ghana is divided into 10 regions, which are divided into 170 sub-regions spread across six agro-ecological zones. [4]
On 20 July 2011, the UN declared a famine in the Lower Shabelle and Bakool, two regions of southern Somalia. [15] On 3 August, famine was further declared in the Balcad and Cadale districts in Middle Shabelle as well as the IDP settlements in Mogadishu and Afgooye in response to data from the UN's food security and nutrition analysis unit.
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]
On 1 August, the Global Famine Review Committee released a report officially declaring that it was possible that IPC Phase 5 famine conditions were ongoing in North Darfur near Al-Fashir and there was a high risk of similar conditions throughout internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. [5]
According to the BBC 220,000 Somalis died during the 1992 famine. This figure was reportedly surpassed by approximately 40,000 during the 2011 East Africa drought, [48] which primarily affected the same region and communities as the 1992 crisis. [49]