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By Somini Sengupta and Manuela Andreoni An estimated 20 million people in southern Africa are facing what the United Nations calls “acute hunger ... center at Imperial College London.
Hunger remains a pressing global crisis, with its impact acutely felt in local communities. The recently released 2024 ...
Hunger in Africa Soars by Almost a Third in Two Years, IMF Says 12% of people in sub-Saharan Africa are acutely food insecure Food crisis being driven by climate change, war, Covid-19 ...
For example, 37 million people in the Greater Horn of Africa are facing acute hunger in one of the region's worst droughts in decades. These multiple crises have forced the world to recognize that ...
They’re aiming to help some of the 2.7 million people in rural Zimbabwe threatened with hunger because of the drought that has enveloped large parts of southern Africa since late 2023.
Despite being an upper-middle-income country, hunger is widespread in South Africa and is related to the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. A farm worker prunes fruit trees in ...
Historic drought, widespread food insecurity and conflict have led to dire conditions and a crisis of extreme hunger in East Africa. "People have lost millions of livestock, they've lost all their ...
This Confucius quote brings perspective to the overwhelming task of addressing the hunger crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. It is especially acute in the Horn of Africa, where Somalia is threatened by ...
After falling steadily for decades, the prevalence of global hunger is now on the rise—nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, where conflicts, economic fallout from the covid-19 pandemic ...
For example, 37 million people in the Greater Horn of Africa are facing acute hunger in one of the region’s worst droughts in decades. These multiple crises have forced the world to recognise ...