: Famine looms in Somalia, but many ‘hunger hotspots’ are in deep trouble #IndiaNEWS #International The number of people facing life-threatening levels of hunger worldwide without immediate humanitarian

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Famine looms in Somalia, but many ‘hunger hotspots’ are in deep trouble #IndiaNEWS #International
The number of people facing life-threatening levels of hunger worldwide without immediate humanitarian aid, is expected to rise steeply in coming weeks, the UN said on Wednesday, in a new alert about looming famine in the Horn of Africa and beyond.

In Somalia, “hundreds of thousands are already facing starvation today with staggering levels of malnutrition expected among children under five,�? warned the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

In #Somalia , families like Ayans have lost their homes, livelihoods, and loved ones.
WFP is reaching record numbers of people in the face of the #HornofAfrica drought and #FoodCrisis.
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“Large-scale deaths from hunger�? are increasingly likely in the east African nation, the UN agencies continued, noting that unless “adequate�? help arrives, analysts expect that by December, “as many as four children or two adults per 10,000 people, will die every day�?.
Complex roots
In addition to the emergency already unfolding in Somalia, the UN agencies flagged 18 more deeply concerning “hunger hotspots�?, whose problems have been created by conflict, drought, economic uncertainty, the COVID pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Humanitarians are particularly worried for Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen, where a record 970,000 people “are expected to face catastrophic hunger and are starving or projected to starve or at risk of deterioration to catastrophic conditions, if no action is taken�?, the UN agencies said.
This is 10 times more than six years ago, when only two countries had populations as badly food insecure, FAO and WFP noted, in a new report.
Urgent humanitarian action is needed and at scale in all of these at-risk countries “to save lives and livelihoods�? and prevent famine, the UN agencies insisted.
Harsh winter harvest
According to FAO and WFP, acute food insecurity around the world will worsen from October to January.
In addition to Somalia, they highlighted that the problem was also dire in the wider Horn of Africa, where the longest drought in over 40 years is forecast to continue, pushing people “to the brink of starvation�?.
Successive failed rains have destroyed people’s crops and killed their livestock “on which their survival depends�?, said FAO Director-General QU Dongyu, who warned that “people in the poorest countriep��ٙH[��]��HX�]H��Xݚ]H]��8�'��[��[��XY[��Xܛ��H�ܛ8�ˈ