United Nations: 18 million people are at risk of food insecurity over the next three months.
The United Nations has warned that 18 million people in the African coast are at risk of food insecurity.
Jens Lark, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva, warned that more than 18 million people on the African coast were likely to face severe food insecurity in the next three months.
“7.7 million children under the age of five in the coastal region of Africa are expected to suffer from malnutrition,” he told a UN news conference on the coastal region, which stretches from west to east across parts of North Africa.
“About 1.8 million people are severely malnourished, and if the relief operation does not increase, that number will reach 2.4 million by the end of the year,” Larky said.
He added that the situation in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger has reached alarming levels, where people will experience emergency levels of food insecurity during the drought season between June and August.
Oxfam International and Save the Children estimates last Tuesday showed that one person dies of starvation every 48 seconds in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
In the report, the two organizations highlighted the world’s repeated failures to prevent preventable disasters, saying that Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia were once again facing a major catastrophe due to drought, as millions of people in the three countries were facing severe hunger catastrophes. are.
The number of people suffering from severe hunger in these three countries has more than doubled since last year, from more than 10 million to more than 23 million now, the report said.
