Nearly a million people are in danger of losing their lives, threatened by a “catastrophic famine”, by the lack of humanitarian aid and, in particular, by the devastating drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN warned.
This figure comes from a report published this Wednesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Program, on the occasion of the UN General Assembly in New York.
This balance details the situation of 19 countries considered the main problematic points of hunger in the world by the UN, including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen.
In these six countries, 970,000 people will have to verify, until January 2023, the criteria related to the ‘disaster’ phase, the highest in the classification of food insecurity.
It corresponds to situations in which “hunger and death are a daily reality and where extreme levels of mortality and malnutrition can occur in the absence of immediate action”.
This estimate is ten times higher than the one made six years ago, which is attributed “to the effect of conflicts, climate change and economic instability aggravated by the new coronavirus pandemic and the repercussions of the crisis in Ukraine.”
Source: TSF
