Africa is facing one of the worst Food
crises, where millions of people are
suffering from malnutrition and are
being forced to migrate in search of
food . our next report gets you all the
details about the current situation in
Africa, take a look.
Africa is facing a food crisis, that is
bigger and more complex than it has ever
seen before.
that’s according to diplomats and Aid
workers , who say the situation has
worsened in the past year conflict and
climate change are the main culprits.
Here women had to bring her malnourished daughters
to a hospital in Mogadishu.
she and her family set off on foot to
the Capitol in hopes of escaping the
drought, that ravaged their town .the
journey took 12 days.
she says three of her children were
anemic and needed blood transfusions. a
nurse told her 42 other children had
already been checked into the emergency
unit that day from Hunger . there were 57
the day before that
half a million children’s lives are at
risk from a looming famine in Somalia.
according to the UN more than anywhere
else in the world.
It also says one in five Africans a
record
278 million people were already facing
hunger in 2021 . but warns the peak of The
Hunger crisis hasn’t been seen yet.
East Africa has missed four consecutive
rainy Seasons . the worst drought in
decades , while on the other side of the
continent West Africa has been hit by
flooding. after historic rainfall heavy
debt burdens, following the covid-19
pandemic continue to affect livelihoods.
while Rising prices and the war in
Ukraine have made things worse . Regional
director of Unicef , Rania de gash the
fundamental issue in Somalian in the
horn at the moment is a climate-induced
crisis . right it’s drought but where are
the effects of the Ukraine crisis come
in , is that the foods prices and fuel
prices and others are hiked up to a
point . where we need more resources to
secure ,what we would have secured before
we need a lot more.
conflicts are also worsening across the
continent, it’s long been a driver of
hunger forcing people from their homes.
livelihoods and Farms while making it
dangerous to deliver assistance . the
number of displaced people in Africa has
tripled over the past decade to a record
36 million in 2022. according to the UN
that represents almost half the
displaced people in the world.