Lesotho is experiencing a major food security crisis as a result of the El-Niño induced drought. The situation has been exacerbated by successive years of crop failures, low incomes and high food prices.
Liberia, on the Atlantic coast of Africa, is classified as a least developed, low-income, food-deficit country.
Years of political instability and a recent economic crisis have left the country in a fragile state of transition. The recent deadly floods threaten its recovery and may put many more at risk of hunger.
Frequent climate extremes like cyclones and drought are driving hunger in southern Madagascar.
With a majority of livelihoods dependent on agriculture, the population of Malawi is highly vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters such as drought and flooding.
The cumulative effects of frequent drought, armed violence and widespread insecurity have progressively hurt people’s livelihoods.
Two back-to-back massive cyclones in 2019 devastated the country. Now COVID-19 threatens to wreak more havoc.
The impact of climate change, coupled with COVID-19, has increased the scale of deprivation, food insecurity and malnutrition among vulnerable rural and urban communities in Namibia.
Niger is a landlocked and food-deficit Sahel country. Gender disparities persist and continue to strongly challenge the country’s development.
Boko Haram has displaced an estimated 1.78 million within the country’s borders—80 percent are women and children.
