Geneva: United Nations warning that 18 million people Africa‘s Sahel area critical hunger over the next three months, citing the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, climate-induced shocks and rising costs.
Hunger crisis may put pressure on increased numbers of people to migrate from affected areas, Coordination Office human cases said on Friday.
The greatest number of people across the region are at risk of severe hunger since 2014, and four countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger – are facing “alarming levels”, with some 1.7 million people at risk of food insecurity. Facing an emergency level. According to the United Nations agency.
Part of the Sahel region, a vast area extending to the south Sahara DesertThe UN’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program spokesman Tomson Firi said agricultural production has suffered its worst in more than a decade, and food shortages could worsen as the end of summer approaches. Is.
“The situation is certainly going to get worse before it gets better,” he told reporters in Geneva. “We can see that more people are trying to meet their needs by migrating: that’s a very likely possibility.”
Many in the region are among the migrants who seek to travel from the north to Europe in the hope of economic opportunity, greater stability and security.
“A combination of violence, insecurity, deep poverty and record-high food prices is fueling malnutrition and pushing millions of people to survive,” OCHA chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement.
“The recent spike in food prices driven by conflict between Russia and Ukraine is threatening to turn the food security crisis into a humanitarian disaster,” he said. Those two countries are major producers of wheat, barley and other agricultural products, and the conflict has almost completely halted exports through the Black Sea.
Griffiths’ office is releasing $30 million from its emergency relief fund for four African countries.
OCHA said humanitarian groups earlier this year sought $3.8 billion in aid for the region in 2022, but they are only 12% funded.
Hunger crisis may put pressure on increased numbers of people to migrate from affected areas, Coordination Office human cases said on Friday.
The greatest number of people across the region are at risk of severe hunger since 2014, and four countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger – are facing “alarming levels”, with some 1.7 million people at risk of food insecurity. Facing an emergency level. According to the United Nations agency.
Part of the Sahel region, a vast area extending to the south Sahara DesertThe UN’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program spokesman Tomson Firi said agricultural production has suffered its worst in more than a decade, and food shortages could worsen as the end of summer approaches. Is.
“The situation is certainly going to get worse before it gets better,” he told reporters in Geneva. “We can see that more people are trying to meet their needs by migrating: that’s a very likely possibility.”
Many in the region are among the migrants who seek to travel from the north to Europe in the hope of economic opportunity, greater stability and security.
“A combination of violence, insecurity, deep poverty and record-high food prices is fueling malnutrition and pushing millions of people to survive,” OCHA chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement.
“The recent spike in food prices driven by conflict between Russia and Ukraine is threatening to turn the food security crisis into a humanitarian disaster,” he said. Those two countries are major producers of wheat, barley and other agricultural products, and the conflict has almost completely halted exports through the Black Sea.
Griffiths’ office is releasing $30 million from its emergency relief fund for four African countries.
OCHA said humanitarian groups earlier this year sought $3.8 billion in aid for the region in 2022, but they are only 12% funded.