FAO: 193 million people in Africa and the world have lost their food security
A report issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) revealed that no less than 193 million people on the planet, including Africa, are threatened by hunger and lack of basic foodstuffs, especially grains, as a result of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022.
The FAO report predicted a further deterioration in the global food security situation unless the Russian-Ukrainian war ends in the coming weeks, pointing out that the countries of Africa had the grain crisis most severely affected, and that the situation was worse in certain African countries than others in the sub-Saharan region.
The report stated that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the worst in terms of food security in 2022, as 25.9 million Congolese face insecure food conditions, including 5.4 million people in specific regions. A state of humanitarian relief emergency was declared to request food aid from the United Nations in the period from January Until the end of June 2022.
Nigeria came second on the scale of the deteriorating food security situation, which has become a real crisis for more than 20 million Nigerians, including 1.2 who are at risk of losing their lives due to hunger in the period from June to the end of August 2022.
In Ethiopia, there are 18 million people in dire need of basic food, a crisis that was exacerbated by the rise in food prices in the Ethiopian market by 43.4 percent during the first half of this year as a result of the increase in agricultural production inputs and fertilizers.
In southern Sudan, according to FAO there are 7.7 million people by threatened hunger, and that 2.9 million people are in hunger only in the period from April to July 2022, including 878 thousand cases of hunger that led to death, an increase of 17 percent from the rates of critical hunger cases recorded during the same period of the year 2021.
In Somalia, there are – according to FAO reports – no less than 6 million Somalis struggling with hunger, and that was in the first half of this year, and 1.7 million Somalis are on the brink of starvation as a result of the lack of grain and foodstuffs.
