Africa’s Hunger Crisis Deepens as War, Climate Pile on Pain
- More than 280 million in region are going hungry, report says
- UN agencies, World Food Program, African Union call for action
An estimated 868 million Africans were moderately or severely food insecure.
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More than 280 million people are going hungry in Africa, as fallout from climate change and the war in Ukraine deepen the region’s insecurity.
“Africa is facing a food crisis of unprecedented proportions,” the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Program, the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa warned in a joint report on Thursday. “After a long period of improvement between 2000 and 2010, hunger has worsened substantially and most of this deterioration occurred between 2019 and 2022.”