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The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people into worsening levels of severe hunger, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
The latest Hunger Hotspots report calls for urgent humanitarian action to save lives and prevent famine in hotspot countries where severe hunger is expected to worsen from October 2022 to January 2023.
In response to the looming threat of famine, WFP has scaled up to reach more people than ever before in Somalia – people like Mido.
WFP is scaling up its emergency response in Pakistan to reach 1.9 million people affected by this year’s monsoon floods. Recovery and resilience support is now a top priority.
Following the Government of Pakistan’s request for support, the U.N. World Food Programme is rapidly expanding its food assistance to 500K people.
Since the start of the year, 9 million more people have slipped into severe hunger across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia – leaving 22 million people struggling to find enough food to eat.
Almost one-third of the acutely food insecure South Sudanese the WFP planned to support this year will be left without humanitarian food assistance due to critical funding shortages, heightening the risk of starvation for 1.7 million people.
A new hunger hotspots report found that conflict, weather extremes, economic shocks, the lingering impacts of COVID-19 and the ripple effects from the war in Ukraine are pushing millions of people across the world into poverty and hunger.
In Somalia, the risk of famine looms larger than ever due to a historic fourth consecutive failed rainy season, skyrocketing prices and an underfunded humanitarian response.