Ghana
April 22, 2025
Widespread poverty, deep-rooted inequality, a rapidly changing climate and frequent natural disasters are driving hunger in Guatemala.
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Guinea
April 22, 2025
Although rich in natural resources, Guinea faces major socioeconomic challenges. The poverty rate is alarming, and women especially are going hungry. Meanwhile, devastating natural disasters make things worse – but we’re on the ground helping build more sustainable food systems for the people who need them most.
Guinea-Bissau
April 22, 2025
Chronic food insecurity is compounded by shocks related to political instability, irregular rainfall and volatility of prices for imported rice and local cashew nut production for export.
Algeria
April 22, 2025
Refugees in Algeria are suffering from food insecurity and nutritional deficiencies. You can help us deliver lifesaving food and school meals.
Angola
April 22, 2025
Angola hosts thousands of refugees while suffering from hunger: driven by poverty, poor sanitation and gender inequality.
Benin
April 22, 2025
Benin frequently faces extreme weather shocks of droughts and floods, causing damage, displacement and hunger.
Burkina Faso
April 22, 2025
The Sahel nation faces a multidimensional crisis driven by insecurity, political instability, climate change and rising food prices.
Burundi
April 22, 2025
Burundi faces some of the most significant food security and nutrition challenges on the planet, like extreme poverty, gender inequality and political instability. These factors make Burundi the 9th worst food security crisis in the world.
Cameroon
April 22, 2025
Cameroon’s economy is growing, but many people – especially in rural areas – are still poor and hungry. And the vulnerable country is facing three large-scale, complex and violent crises.
Central African Republic
April 22, 2025
The Central African Republic (C.A.R.) ranks second to last in the 2018 Human Development Index, with almost all of its people living in poverty. And seemingly never ending cycles of political crisis and insecurity hit women in rural communities hardest.
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