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Widespread hunger across East Africa could become “a catastrophe” without an injection of funds to the region's most vulnerable communities, the international aid group Oxfam warned Tuesday.
After four consecutive failed rainy seasons, harvests in East Africa have become so barren that one person is likely to die of hunger every 36 seconds, according to a new report on acute food ...
Other countries in East Africa, including Sudan, South Sudan and parts of Uganda, were also affected by a food crisis. [8] [10] [11] [12] According to FAO-Somalia, the food crisis in Somalia primarily affected farmers in the south rather than the northern pastoralists. [13]
In the Tigray Region alone, 89% of people are in need of food aid, with those facing severe hunger reaching up to 47%. [5] [1] In a report published in June 2021, over 350,000 people were already experiencing catastrophic famine conditions (IPC Phase 5). [6] [7] It is the worst famine to happen in East Africa since 2011–2012. [7]
A potential disruption to global wheat supplies could exacerbate the ongoing hunger crisis in Yemen, [122] Afghanistan [123] [124] and East Africa. [125] The American Bakers Association president warned that the price of anything made with grain would begin rising as all the grain markets are interrelated.
Some 11 million children in eastern and southern Africa face hunger, disease and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Nio in decades.
In September 2022, the World Food Programme estimated that 17.4 million Yemenis struggled with food insecurity, and projected that number would increase to 19 million by the end of the year, describing this level of hunger as "unprecedented." [9] The crisis is being compounded by an outbreak of cholera, which resulted in over 3000 deaths ...
In the Tigray Region alone, 89% of people are in need of food aid, with those facing severe hunger reaching up to 47%. [21] [22] In a report published in June 2021, over 350,000 people were already experiencing catastrophic famine conditions (IPC Phase 5). [23] [24] It is the worst famine to happen in East Africa since 2011–2012. [24]