Horn of Africa Faces Most 'Catastrophic' Food Insecurity in Decades, Warns WHO: EastAfrica
"There are now four seasons where the rain didn't come as predicted and a fifth season is estimated to also fail. Places where there is drought the problem keeps worsening and worsening," said WHO Incident Manager Sophie Maes.
"In other places like South Sudan, there have been three years of consecutive flooding with almost 40 per cent of the country being flooded. And we are looking at something that isOver 37 million people in the region are projected to reach the third level of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale and higher in the coming months.
This means that the population is in crisis, and only marginally able to meet minimum food needs by depleting essential livelihood assets or through crisis-coping strategies. The effects of drought are particularly severe in eastern and southern Ethiopia, eastern and northern Kenya, and southern and central Somalia.
Food insecurity in South Sudan has reached the most extreme levels since independence in 2011, with 8.3 million people comprising 75 per cent of the population facing severe food insecurity.Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox
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