In this fact sheet, we will look at the history of hunger in Africa and current trends, review the unique characteristics and challenges of each of the five subregions, discuss why hunger is so persistent on the continent, and touch on some of the solutions that are making a difference.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations announced Monday that Somalia’s famine had spread to a sixth area within the country, with officials warning that 750,000 people could die in the next few months unless aid efforts were scaled up....
The humanitarian response to Kenya's current food crisis may be unusual in its scale and media attention but there is nothing new about food aid in northern Kenya, where lack of development, insecurity, population growth and recurrent drought have long combined to undermine self-sufficiency. Several...
A 21st-century land rush is on. Driven by fear and lured by promises of high profits, foreign investors are scooping up vast tracts of farmland in some of the world’s hungriest countries to grow crops for export....
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Somalia has had no functioning government since January 1991, when former President Siyad Barre was ousted. Since then, fighting between warlords, government forces and various alliances of Islamist insurgents has resulted in the deaths of thousands of Somalis and displaced hundreds of thousands mo...
Amina Abdalla, a 45-year-old mother of seven, lives in northern Kenya's Marsabit District, where life is a daily struggle for scarce water and pasture. Abdalla's family lives on about 10 litres of water per day, far below the 20-50 litres per person per day recommended by the UN. She told IRIN/Pl...
The warring parties in Somalia should ease rather than thwart the humanitarian effort to deal with drought and famine, a human rights group said on Monday. Human Rights Watch accused all sides involved in the 20-year conflict of contributing to Somalia's humanitarian catastrophe by committing ser...
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Three new areas of Somalia have been classified as having been hit by famine, the UN says. It declared a famine in two large southern regions of the war-torn country in July....
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