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Twenty countries contain areas that could soon experience famine in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, a report has said.
The places prone to imminent and famine are Yemen, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria, UN food agencies have said.
According to the joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) “Hunger hotspots FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity March to July 2021 outlook” published on Tuesday, “acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance.”
According to the report, people in Yemen, South Sudan and Northern Nigeria remain most at risk of rising and dangerously high acute food insecurity.
“In Burkina Faso, food security has slightly improved since last October, but the situation is still very concerning.
“Some 2.7 million Burkina Faso are projected to face high acute food insecurity between June and August 2021, a sharp increase from 700,000 in 2019 before violence escalated in the west Africa nation,” it said.
In Yemen, continued violence and economic decline as well as severe disruption to the humanitarian response are likely to persist over the coming months.
“Over 16 million Yemenis are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity by June 2021, an increase of some 3 million since the end of last year,” the report said.
According to the report, in conflict-hit northern Nigeria, projections for the June – August lean season show that the number of people in the emergency level of acute food insecurity is likely to almost double to over 1.2 million, since the same period last year.