Ukraine war diverts attention from Africa’s severe food insecurity crisis
Villagers return from a market to Yechila town in south central Tigray walking past scores of burnt-out vehicles, in Tigray, Ethiopia, July 10 2021. Picture: GIULIA PARAVICINI/REUTERS
“The acute food insecurity situation in many of the countries where we are working — and people are already affected by armed conflict — is tipping into famine-like conditions,” said Dominik Stillhart, the ICRC’s global operations director. About 90% of Somalia is affected by drought, said Stillhart. If this year’s rains do not materialise, 1.4-million children under five will be acutely malnourished, the UN World Food Programme has said.
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